There are many ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to 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 very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our shared hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record easily. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose 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 benefit, you can see a short video within the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.