There are various ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to 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 site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot 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 sometimes more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every Linux hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domains and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting service we provide, is very easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it will propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.