There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've set up a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for that points to What you'll achieve in this way is that 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. 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 pointing 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 Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud web hosting service is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few basic steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many options - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

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 create a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to point a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this sort of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video in the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.