There are several ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have created a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing 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 important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting
In case you have a cloud web hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it'll take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account via the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this kind of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created an Internet site using another provider, 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, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks inside your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing DNS records usually seems a hard task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each and every Linux semi-dedicated hosting we provide, is extremely simple to use. If you wish to set up a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will have to do will be to select the domain name or subdomain that you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is quite easy and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it'll propagate all over the world. If you are not sure what you should do, we've prepared a detailed 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. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.