There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've developed a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this 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 provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud web hosting is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
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 effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.