There are various ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site 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're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud web hosting packages is extremely simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features 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 basic steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of options - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site by using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will require no more than a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be directed to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Modifying or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is just as easy and takes a click. In case you experience any difficulties, you can go through our comprehensive help article, watch the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or you can just contact us for help.