There are various ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've developed a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux shared website hosting package, will allow you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.