There are various ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 site 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this sort of record before, you will find 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 set up a website through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it takes no more than a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is equally simple and takes a click. If you experience any difficulties, you can go through our in-depth help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.