There are various ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our cloud plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it requires no more than a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled through our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), type where the latter will be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. If you experience any difficulties, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can simply contact us for assistance.