There are various 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 set up a site using some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting plan through our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia CP included with every single plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to those with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each Linux semi-dedicated hosting package which we provide, is very simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you need to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy 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 completely active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you are not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a detailed 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 whenever you want.