There are several ways to redirect a domain address to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't 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 additional configuration may be needed with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record through our Linux shared website hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various possibilities - if you set up a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site by using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, allows you to create a CNAME record effortlessly. If 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 name to another company and use some third-party service that they provide, it won't require more than three mouse clicks to create this type of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the Control Panel, so once you're there, all that 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 type in the actual record text. For your convenience, you can see 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's available in the DNS records section.