There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result 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. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have built a website using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
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 each and every Linux semi-dedicated server which we offer, is quite simple to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple 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 100 % active and within several hours it is going to propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.