There are various ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a site through 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared hosting package through our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then simply click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. This way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it takes just a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be forwarded to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.