There are various ways to redirect website visitors from one domain/website to another. The so-called URL redirection is oftentimes preferred. In contrast to parking a domain address, a URL forwarding can be done only if the domain in question is hosted. What this means in simple terms is that you may still open any content if you have a direct link to it and you could set up e-mail addresses or subdomains and use them. This kind of feature has lots of practical uses - if you decide to switch your domain, you could forward the visitors, but the e-mail messages with the old one shall still be active if you are communicating with customers or partners. When you have two similar Internet sites and you intend to rebuild one of them, you may forward the traffic to the other site in order to prevent losing potential customers, while you shall still be able to access the administration area for the first Internet site and improve it.
URL Redirector in Shared Web Hosting
The Hepsia CP, which comes with our shared web hosting, provides a URL redirection tool which will allow you to redirect any domain address or subdomain hosted inside your account to any URL - inside your account or a third-party one. Creating a new redirection is very easy - you must choose a domain/subdomain and then input the URL it should be forwarded to. You can also forward a particular subfolder only. For instance, when you have your-domain.com and your-domain.com/es, you can forward only the latter. The tool has advanced functions for more tech-savvy users too, like the option to pick the redirection type - 301 (permanent redirection) or 302 (temporary redirection), the redirection method - direct or match, and so forth. If you no longer need a redirection, you are able to disable it with a mouse click from the very same section of the CP.