There are numerous ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've created a website using some online 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this 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 essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux hosting is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 in your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of possibilities - if you set up a company website 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 wish to set up an Internet site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line 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 name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it requires only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be directed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our detailed help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or just contact us for assistance.