There are lots of ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating 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 web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further 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 would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind 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 aid you with this task. If you have set up a website using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will require just a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and takes a click. If you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.