Let’s say I want to move one of my websites here, on Digital Ocean, excepting one subdomain which for now will stay at the current hosting provider (on a shared hosting plan, no dedicated IP). So: http://mysite.com should point to a DO droplet http://subdomain.mysite.com should point to the other hosting provider Since the main domain will be configured here, how will I set up the subdomain? Thanks!

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Subdomain hosted elsewhere - how to configure?

Posted October 2, 2014

Let’s say I want to move one of my websites here, on Digital Ocean, excepting one subdomain which for now will stay at the current hosting provider (on a shared hosting plan, no dedicated IP). So:

http://mysite.com should point to a DO droplet
http://subdomain.mysite.com should point to the other hosting provider

Since the main domain will be configured here, how will I set up the subdomain?

Thanks!

Tudor

Mehul Boricha • October 2, 2014

If your server supports you can add “subdomain” in A record and then point it to your other server IP address. I am not sure but you can try this out.

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Raul Cruz • October 2, 2014

If you point your domain to DO dns you should be able to add an ‘A’ record and pointed over to the other hosting.