There are several ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've developed a site through some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could 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 site from the servers of the third-party company. It is very 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 pointing to one provider and functioning e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our hosting is quite easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domains, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few easy steps. You will find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of opportunities - if you set up a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create an Internet site by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it will take no more than a couple of mouse clicks to complete this task. The plans are handled via our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP in which you will see a section committed to the DNS records of the domains and subdomains hosted in the account. To create a CNAME record, you will only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), input where the latter is going to be redirected to and save the change. The new record will be active almost right away in our system and will propagate worldwide within a couple of hours. Editing or deleting an existing CNAME record within the account is equally easy and takes a click. If you experience any troubles, you can go through our comprehensive help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the CP, or simply contact us for assistance.