There are several ways to point a domain to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. If you own a domain and you've created a website using some on-line service that provides 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 are going to achieve as a result is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is very important to know that if you set up a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, 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 frequently further configuration may be required with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Creating a CNAME record with our Linux cloud hosting is very simple. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domains, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of basic steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature will give you various opportunities - if you build a company site on our end, for instance, the workers can use their emails with the company domain, not with the address of our mail server. If you wish to set up a site using a different company that offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. 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 could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain name, so all your customers will be forwarded to a secure URL.