There are various 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've set up a site using some on-line 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 directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

You can easily set up CNAME records in case you have a Linux website hosting through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel which allows you to see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Setting up a CNAME record involves a few basic steps - select the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost immediately. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domains and subdomains and over the content they open, you can create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unclear about how to create a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find there's a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you want to edit or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a mouse click to make it happen.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it requires just a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP where you will see a section devoted to the DNS records of the domain names and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you'll simply have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), enter where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record inside the account is just as simple and takes a click. In case you experience any problems, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the subject that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can just contact us for help.