There are many ways to point a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site using some on-line 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're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create 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 e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll assist you with this task. If you have set up a site through 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 provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.