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 through some online service that provides 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 will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a web hosting from our company. We'll supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, then just click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you'll have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain 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'll take you literally only a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated server which we offer, is quite simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a couple of hours it will propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.