There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have created a site through some on-line 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 are going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot 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 sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting plan from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have created a site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your Control Panel.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated plan we offer, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be fully active and within a couple of hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you aren't sure what you have to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located within that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.