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 have created a site 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another one. 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 Cloud Hosting
You can easily set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud hosting with our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain name to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.