There are various ways to redirect a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a site through some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website 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 address may have will stop working, so you cannot 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 additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting packages is really simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in only a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you a variety of possibilities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the workers can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a website by using a different company which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.