There are several ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a website using some on-line service that provides 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'll achieve by doing this 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 create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't 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 in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a shared website hosting plan with our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and then simply click the Save button. The process is as basic as that and the new record is going to be active almost right away. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot 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 want to modify 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

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.