There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've created a site using some online service which supplies 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web 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 create 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 working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our cloud web hosting plans is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 inside your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of options - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different company which 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 an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records very easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled using the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain name or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just need to pick the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning 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 innovative cloud hosting platform for a site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, and much more.