There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've developed a website through some online service which provides 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 as a result 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 provider. It is very important to know that if you create 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 functioning e-mail address with a different 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 Website Hosting

In case you have a cloud website hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you have never added this type of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have set up an Internet site via 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, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks within your CP.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single semi-dedicated hosting service which we offer, is quite simple to use. If you need to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will need to do will be to choose the domain name or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then type in the value i.e. the domain address or subdomain you are forwarding to. The process is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be 100 % active and within several hours it's going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you have to do, we have prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial concerning how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both located in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any time.