Run a website and its sub domain on 2 different web hosting providers?

Harry P · Jul 27, 2019

I have a website and its sub domain but I want to run it on 2 different web hosting providers

i.e
example.com will run on a server hosting in US
example.com/sub-domain/ will run on a server hosting in UK

of course is main domain and sub-domain will run 2 different web systems. How can I setup that?

Any help and suggestions?

Localnode · Jul 28, 2019

It's pretty simple:

1. Add an A record to DNS for subdomain;
2. Setup subdomain on a different server;

You'll have to add the A record through whichever registrar you registered the domain from (assuming you're using the registrars DNS).
Alternatively - if you're using your web hosts nameservers you can do this through cPanel (look for the Zone Editor function).
I recommend using Cloudflare for DNS because it makes these things easier and quicker (and it's free).

Harry P · Jul 29, 2019

Localnode said:
1. Add an A record to DNS for subdomain;

Can you give a real example?

Localnode said:
2. Setup subdomain on a different server;

Do I need to add the primary domain on this server too?

Localnode said:
I recommend using Cloudflare for DNS because it makes these things easier and quicker (and it's free).

Sure I am using Cloudflare.

VirtuBox · Jul 29, 2019

Hello @Harry P,
there is a small mistake in your question, because it seems you are not talking about subdomain, but about subfolder.

example.com -> domain
sub.example.com -> subdomain
example.com/subfolder/ -> subfolder

But to answer to your question, yes it's possible, but it will not be easy and it will require to setup a reverse-proxy to send requests on /subfolder/ to another web server.
So that mean, you need at least a VPS or dedicated server to be able to use a custom configuration on your web server.

Harry P · Jul 30, 2019

VirtuBox said:
example.com/subfolder/ -> subfolder

Yes it is what I wanted.

VirtuBox said:
But to answer to your question, yes it's possible, but it will not be easy and it will require to setup a reverse-proxy to send requests on /subfolder/ to another web server.
So that mean, you need at least a VPS or dedicated server to be able to use a custom configuration on your web server.

I have already got a server for this website.
How to configure that?

hostnetindia · Aug 1, 2019

Yes it can be happened. I have seen one of friend. He is running more than 2 subdomains and they all are different hosting platforms.

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