There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have built an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.