There are various ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a website using 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to 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 select the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.