There are several ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have created a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points 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 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created an Internet 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 inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will discover a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be redirected to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. If you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for assistance.