There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will 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 create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our shared hosting plans is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside 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 options - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up an Internet site using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled using the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for every domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just have to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), enter where it will be forwarded to, choose the record type, which will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be ready. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is incredibly intuitive to use, so you'll not have any difficulties. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up 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 name hosted on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.