There are many ways to point a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
If you have a hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP offered with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover 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 an Internet site through another company, 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 setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your CP.