There are numerous ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some online service which supplies 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.