There are many ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a website using some on-line 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to 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 provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be required with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every shared website hosting plan, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that is available in the CP, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you will experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domain names and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create this sort of records with ease.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it won't take you more than three mouse clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all that you will have to do will be to pick 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 convenience, you can watch a short video inside the CP about how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.