There are numerous ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up a website using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every cloud hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you're not sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up such records easily.

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 takes just a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will discover a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be directed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any troubles, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can simply contact us for help.