There are several ways to direct a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have developed a website using some online 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 will achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our hosting plans is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few simple steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you a number of possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, for example, the workers can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain address to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you're there, all you will have to do will be to pick 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 watch a short video inside the CP about how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.