CNAME Records

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There are lots of ways to point a domain name to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain and you have set up a site through some online service that provides you with a service subdomain, you can easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web 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 name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and in some cases more configuration may be required with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our cloud web hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section devoted to the DNS records of your domain addresses, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in just a few basic steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section where you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with various options - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain name 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'll be able to set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and forward it to the main domain, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.