There are many ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a site using some on-line 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is 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 pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address 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 Cloud Hosting
In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it requires only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will discover a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses 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 redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing 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 in-depth help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for assistance.