There are many 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've created a website through some online 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 points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our Linux cloud hosting packages is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up 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 within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an online 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 redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than 3 clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are there, all that you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then type in the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP regarding how to create a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.