There are many ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux cloud website hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will require no more than a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted in the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter will be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can just contact us for assistance.