There are various ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a website through 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up 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 company and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every cloud website hosting package, will permit you to create CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted in the account with several clicks. If you are not sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available inside the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this kind of records easily.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't take you more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can see a short video in the Control Panel regarding how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.