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. In case you own a domain and you've created a site using some online 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important 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 working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records provided you have a Linux cloud website hosting from our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - pick the domain/subdomain, choose CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then just click the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. That way, you'll 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 much more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial where you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify 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 make it happen.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are 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 benefit, you can see a short video inside the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.