There are many ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have developed a site using some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that directs to subdomain.provider.com. What you will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop working, 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 frequently further configuration may be required with the other company.
CNAME Records in Shared Website Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we provide with each and every Linux shared website hosting package, allows you to create CNAME records for any domain or subdomain hosted within the account with only a few mouse clicks. If you're not confident how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulties as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, enter the hostname you are forwarding to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control over your domains and site content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow individuals with no previous experience to set up this kind of records easily.