There are numerous ways to direct 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've developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our shared hosting is really easy. 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 in your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video within the CP regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.