There are many ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you've developed a website using 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot 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 in some cases more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every Linux shared hosting, will permit you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few clicks. If you're not certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial that is available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, type the hostname that you're pointing to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control of your domains and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this sort of records with ease.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting that we offer, is quite simple to use. If you would like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you have to do will be to pick the domain or subdomain that you need, pick the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within a few hours it'll propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you should do, we have prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that very same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for help at any moment.