There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a website using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a website via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks in your CP.