There are numerous ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a website through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result 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 provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every Linux web hosting package, will enable you to create CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up such records with ease.