There are various ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a site through some on-line service that provides 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create 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. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud website hosting package, will allow you to set up CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is unlikely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows 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 create this kind of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated package we provide, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a few hours it'll propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.