There are lots of ways to direct a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website using some online 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'll achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the Internet 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 address may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often more configuration may be necessary with the other company.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is very easy. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel includes 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 only a few basic steps. There is also a video tutorial in the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature gives you a variety 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 name, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to create a site using a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily forward a domain name hosted here and use it for the site. 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 can set up a CNAME record for the www subdomain and direct it to the main domain name, so all your clients will be forwarded to a secure URL.