There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've set up a website through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing 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 provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it will take you only a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record easily. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three mouse clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.