There are lots of ways to redirect a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you've developed a website using some online 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 will achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very 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 pointing to one company and working e-mail address with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually appears to be a difficult task to people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every semi-dedicated hosting plan that we provide, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all that you will need to do will be to pick the domain address or subdomain you need, choose the type of record, which will be CNAME in this case, then input the value i.e. the domain or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is quite simple and you can create the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record is going to be completely active and within several hours it is going to propagate around the world. If you're not sure what you need to do, we've prepared an in depth help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Naturally, you can also get in touch with us for assistance at any moment.