There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have developed a site through some on-line service which supplies 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should 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 provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting through our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves several basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and then simply click the Save button. The procedure is as basic as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and 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 could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally simply a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a tough task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated server which we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you want to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can set up 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 several hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we've prepared a detailed help article and a short video tutorial regarding how to go about creating a CNAME record and they're both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.