There are lots of ways to redirect a domain address to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've set up a site using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be needed with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you have a cloud hosting plan from our company and you would like to create a CNAME record, it will take you only a few clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted in your account through the Hepsia Control Panel included with every single plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, choosing the type, that will be CNAME in this case, inputting the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this sort of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built a website through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you want to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of clicks inside your Control Panel.