There are many 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 and you have developed a site through 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're going to achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the Internet browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to 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 company and functioning email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently further configuration may be needed with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our cloud hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted in your account in a couple of basic steps. You can find a video tutorial in the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you many options - 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 want to create a website through a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, if you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you are able to create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.