There are several ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could 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 will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
In case you have a shared website hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering 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 you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take no more than a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will only have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type 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 several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as easy and takes a click. If you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or simply contact us for assistance.