There are several ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a website through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result 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 company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have built a site through another company, 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 provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, 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 set up 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 inside the Control Panel concerning 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.