There are numerous ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've created a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every cloud service, will allow you to set up CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial available inside the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, though it is unlikely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain names and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create such records with ease.