There are several ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a site through some on-line service which supplies 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'll achieve as a result 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 very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared hosting from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. That way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to get it done.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each semi-dedicated service which we provide, is quite simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain address or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within several hours it will propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.