Subdomain on different host

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I m trying to host a subdomain for my site with a different hosting company and I m running into issues on how to set it up   Here are the specifics  - Domain is registered with GoDaddy   - Nameservers are pointing to DiscountASP net where ASP NET app has been happily running for couple of years  - Would like blog mydomain com to point to my account with DreamHost com to take advantage of their LAMP stack   I have added blog mydomain com to DreamHost  after adding mydomain com  via their control panel  I thought I would be able to add a subdomain entry on GoDaddy to point to DreamHost  but all they allow is blog mydomain com   new url   In theory I could just take our  biz or  net domain and host it on DreamHost but was hoping I could do it all with a subdomain   So  to summarize I d like to know if what I want to do is feasible and if so  how do I go about it  given the constraints of GoDaddy  DiscountASP   amp  DreamHost

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sub domain is part of the domain  it s like subletting a room of an apartment  A records has to be setup on the dns for the domain e g  mydomain com has IP 123 456 789 999 and hosted with Godaddy  Now to get the sub domain  anothersite mydomain com  of which the site is actually on another server then  login to Godaddy and add an A record dnsimple anothersite mydomain com and point the IP to the other server 98 22 11 11  And that s it

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You just need to add an  A  record in the DNS manager on Godaddy  In that  A  record put your IP from dreamhost    I know this works since I m doing the very same thing

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UPDATE - I do not have Total DNS enabled at GoDaddy because the domain is hosted at DiscountASP  As such  I could not add an A Record and that is why GoDaddy was only offering to forward my subdomain to a different site  I finally realized that I had to go to DiscountASP to add the A Record to point to DreamHost  Now waiting to see if it all works   Of course  use the stinkin  IP  I m not sure why that wasn t registering for me  I guess their helper text example of pointing to another url was throwing me off   Thanks for both of the replies  I  got it  as soon as I read Bryant s response which was first but Saif kicked it up a notch and added a little more detail   Thanks

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You just need to add an  A  record in the DNS manager on Godaddy  In that  A  record put your IP from dreamhost    I know this works since I m doing the very same thing

User · Answer

UPDATE - I do not have Total DNS enabled at GoDaddy because the domain is hosted at DiscountASP  As such  I could not add an A Record and that is why GoDaddy was only offering to forward my subdomain to a different site  I finally realized that I had to go to DiscountASP to add the A Record to point to DreamHost  Now waiting to see if it all works   Of course  use the stinkin  IP  I m not sure why that wasn t registering for me  I guess their helper text example of pointing to another url was throwing me off   Thanks for both of the replies  I  got it  as soon as I read Bryant s response which was first but Saif kicked it up a notch and added a little more detail   Thanks

User · Answer

You just need to add an  A  record in the DNS manager on Godaddy  In that  A  record put your IP from dreamhost    I know this works since I m doing the very same thing

User · Answer

UPDATE - I do not have Total DNS enabled at GoDaddy because the domain is hosted at DiscountASP  As such  I could not add an A Record and that is why GoDaddy was only offering to forward my subdomain to a different site  I finally realized that I had to go to DiscountASP to add the A Record to point to DreamHost  Now waiting to see if it all works   Of course  use the stinkin  IP  I m not sure why that wasn t registering for me  I guess their helper text example of pointing to another url was throwing me off   Thanks for both of the replies  I  got it  as soon as I read Bryant s response which was first but Saif kicked it up a notch and added a little more detail   Thanks

User · Answer

You just need to add an  A  record in the DNS manager on Godaddy  In that  A  record put your IP from dreamhost    I know this works since I m doing the very same thing

User · Answer

UPDATE - I do not have Total DNS enabled at GoDaddy because the domain is hosted at DiscountASP  As such  I could not add an A Record and that is why GoDaddy was only offering to forward my subdomain to a different site  I finally realized that I had to go to DiscountASP to add the A Record to point to DreamHost  Now waiting to see if it all works   Of course  use the stinkin  IP  I m not sure why that wasn t registering for me  I guess their helper text example of pointing to another url was throwing me off   Thanks for both of the replies  I  got it  as soon as I read Bryant s response which was first but Saif kicked it up a notch and added a little more detail   Thanks

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