There are lots of ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up a website using some online 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have set up a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.