There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're 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 website 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 pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we provide with each and every web hosting plan, will allow you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that's available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up such records easily.