There are various ways to direct a domain to a different domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you have set up a website through 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 redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you will 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 website from the servers of the third-party provider. It is essential to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain may have will stop functioning, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working e-mail address with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.
CNAME Records in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud website hosting packages is quite simple. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section devoted 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 just a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial inside the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature provides you with a number of possibilities - if you build a company website on our end, as an illustration, the employees can use their e-mails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you decide to set up an Internet site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain address hosted here and use it for the website. Last, but not least, in case you have an online store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and redirect it to the main domain, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.