There are several ways to redirect a domain to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you've developed a website using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll 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 provider. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one company and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a variety of possibilities - if you set up a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up an Internet site using 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, 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 create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your clients are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.