There are various ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. 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 directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux shared web hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three clicks to set up this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.