There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site 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 are 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 website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create 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 e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux cloud hosting, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available inside the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video within the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.