There are several ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've set up a site through some online service which 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 in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web 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 create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. 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 Shared Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records if you have a Linux shared hosting service with our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and then just click the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. This way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.