There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this 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. You should 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 directing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel offered with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, picking out the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up a site via another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks in your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it takes just a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter will be forwarded to and save the modification. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as simple and easy and takes a click. In case you experience any troubles, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.