There are several 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 have created a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating 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 will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up 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 working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 within your account in only a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various options - if you set up a company website 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 wish to set up an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line 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 forward it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we provide, is very simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.