There are many ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've set up a site using some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our shared web hosting service is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP has a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a variety of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to set up a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will require only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will find a section dedicated to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will simply have to select the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter will be redirected to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally simple and takes a click. In case 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 Control Panel, or you can just contact us for help.