There are various ways to redirect a domain 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 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with 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 name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a web hosting plan with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use Control Panel that enables you to observe all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then simply click on the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up 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 decide to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated hosting plan that we offer, is extremely easy to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within several hours it is going to propagate worldwide. If you're not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.