There are lots of ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up a site using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way 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 company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address 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 Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our cloud hosting is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of options - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your customers 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 allow you to create a CNAME record easily. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.