There are many ways to direct a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website using some online 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 are 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 Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up a site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.