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 site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning email addresses with a different one. 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 Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you only a few clicks to do it. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you've never added such a record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have created a website through 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, like Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.