There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create 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 functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records in case you have a Linux shared web hosting package with our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to see all DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record requires a number of easy steps - choose the domain/subdomain, select CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, after that simply click the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could set up a private URL for company emails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can 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 will take you literally simply a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single Linux semi-dedicated hosting package that we offer, is very simple to use. If you need to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain name or subdomain you need, select the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very simple 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 fully active and within several hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you need to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for assistance whenever you want.