There are many ways to point a domain name 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 that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot 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 sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for any domain name or subdomain hosted within the account with several clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial available inside the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.