There are various ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet 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 may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every cloud website hosting plan, allows you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few clicks. If you are not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available inside the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is unlikely you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to set up this sort of records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it takes no more than a few mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for help.