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Subdomain on a different server

I want to develop my first Node.js applications and host it as subdomain, but this server (shared on hostgator) does not support Node.js applications, and for a second I thought if I need to change server only for this?. But nope, there is a solution for this.

What I want#

Solution#

  1. Go to your hosting provider, and look for DNS Zone, on hostgator is under domains tab.

zonadns

  1. Add a Record, put the Name of the host, or subdomain (subdomain.wellingguzman.com), there is possible two types you would need, type A or CNAME. If you want to point to an IP you need a type A, but if you want to point to a domain/subdomain you need CNAME.

On Address/CNAME put the server's IP or subdomain, in my case the app is hosted on OpenShift and the CNAME would be something like nodejs-welling.rhcloud.com.

TTL is Time to Live, amount of seconds the record cache would last.

dnszone filled

This would do the trick, and every time subdomain.wellingguzman.com is typed it would request nodejs-welling.rhcloud.com.