There are several ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared package with our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record involves a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, and then simply click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost right away. In this way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up 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 want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we provide, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to pick the domain address 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 name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it'll propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you should do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.