There are many ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some on-line service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is very important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain 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 sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record using our Linux cloud packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of easy steps. You will find a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a number of opportunities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the workers can use their emails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you choose to create a website through a different provider that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 may set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.