There are numerous ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result 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. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
In case you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will aid you with this task. If you have set up a website through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Managing DNS records usually seems to be a challenging task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every semi-dedicated server which we offer, is very simple to use. If you want to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you have to do will be to choose the domain address or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the Control Panel. Within the hour the new record will be fully active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you are not sure what you need 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 within that very same section of Hepsia. Needless to say, you can also get in touch with us for help anytime.