There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have developed a website using some online service that 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 web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very 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 provider and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every web hosting, will enable you to create CNAME records for every single domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you aren't confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial that is available inside the CP, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you will experience any troubles as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this sort of records effortlessly.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to create this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video in the Control Panel about how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.