There are several ways to direct a domain name 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 online 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing 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 necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks in your CP.