There are various ways to redirect a domain name to a different 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 online 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company 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 required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a shared website hosting with our company. We're going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP where you could view all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted inside the account. Setting up a CNAME record includes a number of easy steps - pick the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click the Save button. The procedure is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. In this way, you will have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you could create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up 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 want to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally simply a mouse 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 set up a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain name to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not take you more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are 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 see a short video within the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.