There are numerous ways to point a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a website through some on-line 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 in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create 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 e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our shared website hosting plans is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.