There are several ways to point a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed a site using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia CP offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created a site using 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 company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.