Mixed Windows and Linux on same domain

Customer Support H-Sphere Reseller Hosting
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On the surface this probably sounds like a silly question, but hear me out…

I’d like to use both Windows and Linux on a particular “website”. For example I have an ASP shopping cart we are already commited to and really like, and I’d like to move vBulletin to Linux to see if that improves the performance and database issues I’m having.

(vBulletin is working on Windows, but I’m getting a fair number of database connection errors)

My idea:

  1. Create a new Linux account with a static IP address.
  2. Create a custom DNS entry in the Windows DNS account pointing to the static IP.

For example: www.mydomain.com is on Windows, and linux.mydomain.com is on the Linux server. “mydomain.com” is not my service account plan.

I understand that will use two user accounts, no big deal to me.

So - will that cause HSphere problems? Is there an easier way to do that, possibly without using a static IP? I tried a third-level domain, but couldn’t figure out how to create one for a domain other than my service account.

Followup question - I’d also like to run MediaWiki. Any problems running that on the Linux servers?

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what about a subdomain? I could very likely work.

about the database errors, it could be something to do with the way php is run in windows, the process exist as soon as the thread is done.

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This is a very interesting post. Sorry to bring it back from the dead. Did this ever work out for you? Can this be done?

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It can, but I was informed that we would have to pay more if the static IP was used for this purpose.

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I wonder what the cost would be now. Thanks for the post!

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Resurrecting an old thread. Is static IP the only way to do this?

I have a windows account with a DotNetNuke site at www.example.com .

We’d also like to run MediaWiki on Linux at , e.g, wiki.example.com

Last time I tried, I could create a Linux account, add a DNS A record on the Windows account pointing to Linux but there was no way to tell the Linux server to respond to that host name because I can’t add that domain to the Linux account. This was before the HSphere upgrade so I wonder if anything has changed or if support can do some manual configuration to make this possible.

I can see that a unique IP will work but that feels kind of wasteful. I guess for another $9 per year or so we could get another domain and call it www.examplewiki.com .

Thanks
Ross

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Resurrecting an old thread a second time. I must be getting old. I was searching for this and forgot that I asked the same question quite some time ago. :slight_smile:

Is a static IP still the only way to do this?

www.example.com on Windows
and (same domain)
subdomain.example.com on Linux

Cheers
Ross