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. When you own a domain name and you have developed a site through 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with 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. 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 provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux cloud website hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case 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 redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.