There are lots of ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've developed a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a Linux shared package with our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you can observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.