There are many ways to direct 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 set up a website using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux shared hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a website using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that 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 input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video within the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.