There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a website through some online service which provides 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're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned 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 may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux website hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated plan which we provide, is very simple to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.