There are various ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
In case you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted within your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. In case you have never added this type 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 assist you with this task. If you have created a site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, like Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your Control Panel.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be forwarded to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within several hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for help.