There are various ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up 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 are going to achieve in this way 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 company. 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 can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often additional configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which our company offers with each and every website hosting, allows you to create CNAME records for every domain name or subdomain hosted in the account with just a few clicks. If you aren't sure how to go about it, you can check the video tutorial available in the Control Panel, read the comprehensive Help article on the subject, or you can simply contact us and we can assist you 24/7, although it is not likely that you'll experience any issues as all it takes to set up a new CNAME record is to choose a domain/subdomain, input the hostname you are redirecting to, and save the change. The new record is going to be fully active within the hour. Using CNAME records enables you to have better control over your domain addresses and website content and our system is simple and user-friendly enough to allow people who have no previous experience to create such records easily.