There are various ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. If you own a domain name and you have set up a site using some online service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve by doing this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned Internet site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one provider and working e-mail address 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 Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a shared web hosting plan through our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account through the Hepsia CP included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, selecting the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. If you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial that you can watch, or you can just contact us and we'll aid you with this task. If you have built a site through another company, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.