CNAME Records

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There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've created a website using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and functioning e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record through our Linux website hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of simple steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you various options - if you set up a company website on our end, for example, the staff can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create an Internet site using a different company 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, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain address, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.