There are lots of ways to redirect a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a site using some on-line service that 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 are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
In case you have a website hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as basic as clicking on a button, choosing the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added this sort of record before, you will find a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have set up a website through 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, such as Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a couple of clicks within your CP.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will permit you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. In case you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain address to a subdomain within the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to create this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain names and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so when you are 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 benefit, you can watch a short video inside the CP concerning how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.