My client has website.com hosted on cPanel, and I’ve built an ecommerce store using WooCommerce for him, which he wants to run as shop.website.com on a separate server. However, he doesn’t want it on the same server as the main site (for reasons of his own).
I’ll be hosting it on my own cPanel server and need shop.website.com to lead to this new setup. I’ve read that DNS changes are needed but don’t have much experience with them, so I’m looking for some guidance.
Definitely possible. You just need to add an A record pointing the subdomain to the IP address of your server.
Rowe said:
Definitely possible. You just need to add an A record pointing the subdomain to the IP address of your server.
We did the same thing for a client recently, works perfectly.
Rowe said:
Definitely possible. You just need to add an A record pointing the subdomain to the IP address of your server.
Yep, this approach works fine.
It’s common to do this. For example, you could have domain.com pointing to one server IP, and then set up shop.domain.com to point to another IP. Subdomains are often treated like separate domains if they’re on different servers.
Yes, you can! Just modify the subdomain’s DNS settings. Add an A record in your DNS that directs shop.website.com to your server’s IP.
An A record in your DNS zone pointing to the other server’s IP will do the trick.
That’s correct about needing DNS changes. Based on what you said, the client’s domain may have name servers set to their cPanel package. You’ll need to access their cPanel’s zone editor to add an A record for shop.website.com pointing to your server.
If you don’t expect easy access to their domain settings long-term, you might consider setting up NS records for the subdomain (shop.website.com) to control its DNS zone separately.
Yes, just set it up in DNS to point the subdomain to the other server.
Sure thing, just create an A record in the DNS pointing to the new server’s IP address.
All good advice here. Just remember to add a CNAME or A record for www.shop.website.com if you want the www version to point there as well.
Yes, it’s possible. Set up the subdomain in the client’s cPanel and point it to your server’s IP address through DNS. You’ll likely do this by adding an A record.
Yes, it’s possible to host a subdomain on a different server than the main domain. Set up an A or CNAME record in DNS for the subdomain to point to the other server.
Not only possible but very common. For example, you could have www.mydomain.com on one server and store.mydomain.com on a different one, like Shopify.