There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some on-line service which supplies 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're going to 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 Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud packages is extremely 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 within your account in just a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with many options - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. 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 could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when 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 inside the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.