There are many ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

In case you have a web hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it will take you a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted inside your account via the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this type of record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every Linux semi-dedicated package we offer, is quite simple to use. If you wish to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, choose 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 quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within a couple of hours it will propagate around the world. If you aren't 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 situated in that same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.