There are many ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, 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 in some cases further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux shared website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 in 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 variety of options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create an Internet site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to set up this sort 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 you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.