There are many ways to direct a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a site through some on-line service which supplies 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 with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux web hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of options - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated package we offer, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within a few hours it's going to propagate all over the world. If you're not sure what you should 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 situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.