There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a website using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every shared web hosting, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, though it is not likely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated server which we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we have prepared a comprehensive 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. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help whenever you want.