There are lots of ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have created a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia CP offered with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via another provider, 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, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.