How to configure subdomain hosting without domain hosting?

[Wilhelmina Randtke]

"cheapie hosting provider should be able to provide a static IP address for
your hosting account, [. . .] I see that Dreamhost’s cost is $3.95 per
month."

Nope, that is a unique IP.  Not static.  So, no one else would have their
stuff at the same IP as mine, and somehow that would affect search engine
optimization.  But that IP would periodically change.

What I want is an IP that never changes.  This is not available.  I checked
multiple cheapie hosting companies.  Static IP is a business class thing,
and not readily available for purchase at my price range.

I do not care whether others have stuff at the IP as my stuff.  I think
search engines used to care about this a decade ago, but now it does not
matter.

-Wilhelmina Randtke


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Robert Williams <williams at amigos.org>wrote:

>  Wilhelmina:****
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> First, your university’s authoritive domain information lives at either
> GoDaddy (if all the DNS records are maintained in GoDaddy’s DNS system) or
> your university’s servers (if the domain account at GoDaddy points all DNS
> queries to the university’s DNS servers). Typically, an ‘A’ record is
> created on the primary DNS server to “point” a sub-domain at a specific
> server by IP address. Unfortunately, you’re probably stuck with the campus
> IT staff having to do that ‘A’ record setup/edit for you if you want to use
> the university’s main domain name.****
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> However, the cheapie hosting provider should be able to provide a static
> IP address for your hosting account, albeit at an additional cost over your
> normal monthly/annual hosting costs. The rate for a dedicated IP address
> varies by hosting company, from $1 up to as much as $10 per month; I see
> that Dreamhost’s cost is $3.95 per month. There are a number of reasons
> having a static IP assigned to your domain is a good idea (generally
> involving reverse DNS and spam block lists). This would solve the problem
> of needing IT to perform periodic updates of the IP address in the
> university’s DNS records.****
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> I’m not familiar with a really good way to assign the sub-domain without a
> static IP address (others may be). I’ve always run into trade-offs like you
> mentioned.****
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> Hope that helps a bit.****
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> --Robert****
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> Robert L. Williams****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Wilhelmina Randtke
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:15 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] How to configure subdomain hosting without domain
> hosting?****
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> I'm trying to get a subdomain of my university's domain pointed at content
> on a cheapie hosting account.  To do this, I can get main campus to put in
> a CNAME record with the IP address matching where the DNS for my cheapie
> hosting account is currently located in the cheapie hosting company's
> system.  The problem is, this IP will periodically change, meaning main
> campus IT will have to be involved periodically down the line in order to
> cut and paste the new IP into their system, and meaning that the hosted
> services could go unavailable for a few days when this happens.****
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>  ****
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> The main campus uses GoDaddy's DNS which is set in stone, and the cheapie
> hosting in question is Dreamhost but any other cheapie service would do.
> ****
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>  ****
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> Am I doing this the hard way?  *How would you go about getting a
> subdomain of your university's URL to point at your cheapie webhosting
> account?  *****
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>  ****
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> Subdomain forwarding with masking then storing content at a random URL but
> having it appear to be on the university's subdomain does not work, because
> this causes problems responding to XML queries.****
>
> I am able to run a server in my office or the building with a static IP,
> but I don't want content to live on an in-house server.  Could I use this
> to catch things coming to the IP, then redirect to the cheapie hosting
> account?****
>
> Is there a way to go from GoDaddy's DNS management system to point at the
> nameservers for the cheapie hosting company, the same way you would do to
> host a domain?****
>
>  ****
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke****
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