There are several ways to direct 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've created a website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this 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 essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our website hosting plans is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in just a few easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site through a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line 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 direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated hosting plan that we offer, is quite simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to select the domain or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain name 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 will be completely active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.