There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've developed a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 may have will stop functioning, so you cannot 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 often further configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record through our shared hosting plans is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few easy steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various options - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website by using a different company that 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 a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records really easy with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are handled via the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain or subdomain which you have added in your account. To set up a new record, you just have to choose the hostname that will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, select the record type, that will be CNAME in this case, and you're going to be all set. Even when you haven't used a web hosting service before, our Control Panel is very easy to use, so you will not have any troubles. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article concerning how to set up a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain address hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created somewhere else, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domain addresses, plus much more.