There are lots of 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 website through some online service which supplies 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 will 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 very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which we offer with each and every hosting plan, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account with several mouse clicks. If you're not absolutely sure how to go about it, you should check the video tutorial that's available within the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, even though it is not likely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to pick a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname that you're redirecting to, and save the change. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses and site content and our system is simple and intuitive enough to allow people with no previous experience to create such records effortlessly.

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 only a few clicks to complete this task. The plans are managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel where you will find a section committed to the DNS records of the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the account. To set up a CNAME record, you'll only have to choose the record type and the hostname (domain or subdomain), key in where the latter will 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. Changing or deleting an existing CNAME record in the account is equally easy and takes a click. In case you experience any difficulties, you can go through our in-depth help article, see the short video on the topic that we have added in the Control Panel, or you can simply contact us for help.