There are several 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 have developed a site using some online 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 are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every single domain name or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you're redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domain names and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records easily.