There are various ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every cloud website hosting plan, will permit you to create CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with several clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domains and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this kind of records easily.