There are numerous ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have developed a site using 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 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 functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which our company offers with each and every Linux cloud hosting package, allows you to set up CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted in the account with several mouse clicks. If you are not confident how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available within the Control Panel, read the detailed Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we will help you 24/7, even though it is unlikely you'll experience any problems as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, type in the hostname you're forwarding to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records permits you to have better control over your domains and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to create this sort of records easily.