There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a website using some online 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 in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet 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 may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have a semi-dedicated server with our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it takes no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter will be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case 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 Control Panel, or you can just contact us for assistance.