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Question about subdomains.

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de9ali

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Can a subdomain live on a seperate computer, instead of the computer where the main domain is hosted? Does this make sense?

In other words, our domain -- mydomain.com is hosted on 1 computer and we want subdomain.mydomain.com to be hosted on another computer (not redirected). Is this possible? And can anyone guide me in the right direction. BTW, we are using WIN2k and Apache.

 
Yes. Each subdomain has to have an A record created as well, in the DNS servers you use, so you can specify any IP you want to.

For instance, the "www" subdomain is in fact just a reference to a host computer, which happens to be by common usage always a web server, but it could be anything. A properly configured DNS record would have an entry for domain.com as well as www.domain.com, and any other hosts you want pointed to a particular address. Without an A record, subdomains go nowhere.

How you set this up depends on where your DNS is hosted. Most of the domain registrars who allow you to use their DNS servers let you set up subdomains through a web form, or if you have your DNS served elsewhere, just contact the admins and tell them what subdomain and IP you need.
 
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