There are several ways to redirect a domain 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 website using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing 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 provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a Linux shared hosting from our company. We are going to provide you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to observe all DNS records for the domain names and subdomains which are hosted in the account. Creating a CNAME record requires several simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click on the Save button. The procedure is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. That way, you'll have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, plus much more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a mouse click to get it done.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain inside the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to set up this sort of 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 once you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see a short video inside the CP on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.