There are several ways to direct 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 name and you've set up a website through some online service which 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 will achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is 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 directing to one provider and working email addresses with another. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud packages is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can create a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted within your account in a couple of easy steps. You can find a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety of opportunities - if you create a company website on our end, for example, the employees can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site by using 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, in case you have an on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you may create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain, so all your customers are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.