CNAME Records

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There are lots of ways to point a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've created a website through 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 will achieve by doing 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux cloud web hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.