There are various ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have created a site through some online 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 are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which we offer with each and every web hosting, will allow you to create CNAME records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account with just a few mouse clicks. If you aren't absolutely sure how to go about it, you can check out the video tutorial available within the CP, read the in depth Help article on the subject, or just simply contact us and we can help you 24/7, although it is not likely you'll experience any issues as all it takes to create a new CNAME record is to select a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the modification. The new record will be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records allows you to have better control of your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to set up such records with ease.