There are many ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you will 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 Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record with our Linux hosting packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various opportunities - if you set up a company website on our end, for instance, the staff 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 that 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 a web-based 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 point it to the main domain name, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.