There are numerous ways to direct a domain address 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've developed a site using some online service that 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 will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working 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 provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud web hosting plans is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a site using a different company 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, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated plan we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create 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 need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.