There are several ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have set up a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way 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. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux web hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of basic steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of options - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to create, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are managed through the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you have to select the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our CP is very intuitive to use, so you will not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article on how to create a CNAME record, both of which can be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain hosted on our cutting edge cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created someplace else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and a lot more.