There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have created a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. 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 Cloud Web Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every cloud web hosting, allows you to set up CNAME records for every single domain address or subdomain hosted within the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't certain how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available within the Control Panel, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to create this kind of records effortlessly.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll simply have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter will be forwarded to and save the modification. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and takes a click. In the event you experience any difficulties, you can go through our detailed help article, watch the short video on the subject that we have added in the CP, or simply contact us for help.