There are several ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every website hosting, will allow you to set up CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available in the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is unlikely you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're redirecting 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 over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create such records easily.