CNAME Records

There are numerous ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a site using 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very 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 pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our shared hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. 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 are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will require only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will discover a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up 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 directed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. If you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.