CNAME Records

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There are lots of ways to direct a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you have created a site using some online service which provides 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're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our cloud hosting is extremely easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in only a few easy steps. You'll find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to set up an Internet site through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain address, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.