There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site through some on-line service that provides 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're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux shared web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up a site using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it requires no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will find a section devoted to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted inside the account. To create a CNAME record, you will simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be directed to and save the change. The new record will be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is equally simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for assistance.