There are various 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've set up 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site 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 name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another one. 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
In case you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take you just a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks in your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a tough task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we provide, is extremely easy to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be completely active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the world. If you aren't sure what you have 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 located in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any time.