There are many ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have created a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

In case you have a shared hosting plan through our company and you want to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have built a website via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few clicks in your Control Panel.