There are many ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared website hosting with our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several simple steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. This way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting we offer, is very simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a couple of hours it will propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.