There are various ways to direct a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've developed 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'll 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 company. It is very important 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 company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every Linux cloud package, will enable you to create CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available within the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is not likely that you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses 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 effortlessly.