There are various ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've developed a site using some online service which supplies 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 are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web 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 functioning, so you cannot 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 in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Hosting
Setting up a CNAME record with our shared plans is very simple. 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 in your account in a couple of basic steps. You'll find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you many opportunities - if you build a company website on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.
CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record effortlessly. Whether you want to create a private URL for your e-mails, to forward a domain name to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain address to another company and use some third-party service which they provide, it's not going to take you more than three mouse clicks to set up this type 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 Control Panel, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to create and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then input the actual record text. For your convenience, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, that is available in the DNS records section.