There are numerous ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a website using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to 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 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. 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 are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process 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 fully active and within a few hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.