There are many ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our hosting plans is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it requires only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type in where the latter will be pointed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as easy and takes a click. If you experience any issues, you can go through our detailed help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for assistance.