There are various ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site through 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to 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 company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built a site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each semi-dedicated plan we offer, is very easy to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within several hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.