There are various ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is 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 company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every cloud website hosting plan, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with only a few clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available in the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this kind of records with ease.