There are many ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a site using some on-line service which supplies 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a cloud hosting plan through our company. We will provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally simply a click to make it happen.