There are many ways to point a domain address 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've set up a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our shared hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're 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 enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the Control Panel concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.