There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have created a site via 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, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it takes no more than a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will discover a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you will simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be pointed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or simply contact us for assistance.