CNAME Records

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There are many ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you've developed a website using some on-line service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party company. You should know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working 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 Web Hosting

Creating a CNAME record through our Linux web hosting packages is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has 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 inside your account in just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their e-mails with the company domain name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create an Internet site using 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 on-line store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you can create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain address, so all your visitors are going to be forwarded to a secure URL.