There are several ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some on-line 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 will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud website hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel 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 only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a website by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated hosting plan which we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within several hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.