There are many ways to redirect 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 set up a website using some on-line service that provides 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 as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up 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 company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of options - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address 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 are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, is quite simple to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a couple of hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located within that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.