There are lots of ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a website through some on-line service that 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're going to achieve by doing this 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 provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records if you have a web hosting with our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost right away. This way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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