There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name to another 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 on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing 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 provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared web hosting package with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally just a mouse click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a challenging task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package we offer, is quite simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure 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 100 % active and within a couple of hours it's going to propagate worldwide. If you are not sure what you should do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.