The host I’ve been using for years and loved let me know that the MSM / subdomain setup on a current client project is considered against their terms and conditions if I want to point 2 domains to a single hosting account. Probably my mistake for asking them a question about the setup to alert them.
I can understand the fine line if someone was trying to host 10 sites from 10 different domains, but our situation is a sister site with identical content after a merger—just keeping 2 company names and domains to not confuse their patrons. The client has quite a wild DNS setup so it looks like we were going to need to point an A record to a subdomain (not sure if that’s even possible) of that second site.
The setup is:
site1.com is pointed to Host with an A record
site2.com needs to be pointed to the site2 subdomain of site1 at the Host
The Host has indicated they don’t allow this and suggested:
The only alternative is to use the URL forwarding (redirect) or URL frame services of your domain registrar http://www.networksolutions.com and redirect site2.com to site2.site1.com.
Basically it sounds like their option in that scenario is to have the sister site resolve to the subdomain, not the root domain. Not ideal.
Is it at all possible to open a second hosting account for the sister site only, where those files talk to site1 and the database there, or is that completely out of the realm of EE MSM? Now that I think about it, interesting there aren’t more posts on this topic.