There are many ways to direct a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have developed a site using 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 with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every shared hosting, will enable you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create such records easily.