There are lots of ways to point a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a website using some online 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every cloud hosting service, allows you to set up CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you are pointing 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 of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated service we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.