There are several ways to point 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've developed a site through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to 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 company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every Linux shared website hosting package, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records effortlessly.