There are many ways to point a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site through some on-line 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 will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create 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 e-mail address with a different 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 Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your CP.