There are several ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've developed a website using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects 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 site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a website hosting from our company. We will supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you'll have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you decide to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to set up, edit and delete CNAME records really easy with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you will see all records for any domain or subdomain you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to choose the hostname that'll be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you will be ready. Even when you have never used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is extremely easy 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 are located in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this feature, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain names, plus much more.