There are many ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website using 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 is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to 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 directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a shared plan with our company. We'll provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, then just click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. That way, you are going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and more. If you feel uncertain about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally only a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the Control Panel about how to set up a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.