There are various ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've created a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every cloud web hosting, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available within the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type 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 names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create such records easily.