There are numerous ways to direct a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've created a site using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can 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 with 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 provider. You should know that if you set up 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 company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated server we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a few hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.