There are numerous ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have created a website through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux web hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features 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 in your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will require only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will see a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter will be forwarded to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.