There are many ways to point a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've developed a site through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned 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 cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every shared hosting, will enable you to set up CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that's available in the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this kind of records with ease.