There are lots of ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've set up a website using some online service that provides 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 are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up 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 functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every cloud web hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is unlikely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domains and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this sort of records easily.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated service we offer, is very easy to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.