There are various ways to redirect website visitors from one domain/website to another. The so-called URL redirection is frequently favored. In contrast to parking a domain, a URL forwarding can be done only if the domain name in question is hosted. What this means basically is that you may still open any content if you have a direct link to it and you can set up email addresses or subdomains and use them. This kind of feature has lots of practical uses - if you decide to switch your domain name, you could forward the visitors, but the e-mails with the old one shall still be active whenever you are communicating with customers or partners. When you have 2 very similar Internet sites and you want to rebuild one of them, you could redirect the traffic to the other website so that you can avoid losing potential clients, while you shall still be able to access the administrator area for the first Internet site and work on it.
URL Redirector in Cloud Hosting
We offer a handy and really simple-to-use tool for setting up a URL redirection, so if you have a cloud hosting account with our company, you can benefit from it, if necessary. Any domain or subdomain hosted inside the account can be forwarded, so you will just need to select the one you need from a drop-down menu, to pick if the main folder or a subfolder will be forwarded and to input the new web address, regardless of whether it is pointing to a different site inside your account or to a website on a remote web server. The redirection will be activated almost immediately. In case you are more experienced, you'll have a variety of advanced options to pick from as well - the redirection method (match or direct), the type (301 Permanent or 302 Temporary) and so forth. All of the redirections shall be listed in the exact same section, so in case you don't need a specific one anymore, you are able to cancel it with a mouse click.
URL Redirector in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server offers come with a very convenient tool that'll supply you with an automated and easy way to redirect any one of your domains to an alternative URL. While this is normally done by setting up a special file in the domain folder and by typing in specific content within it, our tool will enable you to pick a domain/subdomain from a drop-down list and to type in the preferred remote Internet address. Our system will do the rest and the forwarding will be enabled in seconds. If you are more tech-savvy, you could select a range of more advanced options as well, including the redirection method (direct, match) and the redirection type (temporary, permanent). You may also forward a certain folder instead of the root domain. You'll be able to edit these settings whenever you want, and also to delete an active redirection from the exact same section in which you have created it initially.