There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've developed 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux shared hosting packages is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. 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 set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record with ease. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain name to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to create such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all 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 convenience, you can see a short video within the CP concerning how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.