There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our shared web hosting plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in just a few simple steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to create a site by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line 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 Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single semi-dedicated plan we offer, is extremely simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within several hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.