There are several ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have created a website through some on-line service that provides 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'll 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 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 name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record using our Linux website hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in only a few simple steps. You'll find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for instance, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website by using a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to create a CNAME record with ease. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to redirect a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it will not require more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to select 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 see a short video within the Control Panel 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.