There are many ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've developed a website using some on-line service which supplies 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 are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared service is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a number of options - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it requires just 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 devoted to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter will be forwarded to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any problems, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.