There are various ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've set up a website through some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should 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 pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily create CNAME records provided you have a cloud website hosting from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP which allows you to view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted in the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few simple steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record will be active almost instantly. This way, you will have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you can set up a private URL for company emails, and more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial where you could see the whole process first-hand. If you want to modify or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll require literally only a click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with each of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record without difficulty. If you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to redirect a domain to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than 3 mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so when you are there, all you will have to do will be to choose 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, which is available in the DNS records section.