There are various ways to point a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the 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 address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. 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 Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.