There are many 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 and you've set up a website through some on-line service which 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 is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should 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 pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux cloud web hosting service, allows you to set up CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available inside the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, though it is not likely you'll experience any difficulties as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control of your domain names and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up such records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record with ease. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up 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 within the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.