There are lots of 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've set up a website through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be needed with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Website Hosting
You can effortlessly set up CNAME records if you have a website hosting service through our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use Control Panel where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record includes several basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are redirecting to, then simply click on the Save button. The process is as simple as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. In this way, you are going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to set up a private URL for company emails, plus much more. If you feel uncertain about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally only a mouse click to do it.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server from our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it takes only a couple of clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled using our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted inside the account. To set up a CNAME record, you will only have to pick the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record is going to be active almost immediately in our system and will propagate worldwide within a few hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally simple and takes a click. In case you experience any issues, you can go through our in-depth help article, check out the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or just contact us for assistance.