There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have built an Internet site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your CP.