There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can 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 is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux hosting services is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel in which you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter will be directed to and save the modification. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or simply contact us for assistance.