craider
11-29-2008, 06:25 AM
Hosting Subdomains on Different Reseller Accounts
I have a couple of reseller hosting accounts on two different hosts (and planning to add another one early next year) primarily used for my my personal projects. I know that in cPanel, one can easily add new subdomain-based accounts (e.g. sudomain1.domain.com) as long as domain.com "resides" on the same reseller account (may it be fully hosted or just an addon domain).
However, I am planning to distribute these subdomain accounts on my other reseller account. So let's say I have reseller account A from host A and reseller account B from host B; I want to be able to create a new account, sudomain1.domain.com, in A and another account, subdomain2.domain.com, in B. I was thinking of hosting domain.com on a third-party DNS management service.
My question is, would this set-up work? The only thing I am seeing that needs to be done is to add a zone entry to domain.com (i.e. subdomain1 14400 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of my reseller hosting account) everytime I create a new account.
Likewise, if I'm not mistaken, any new subdomains (e.g. www.subdomain1.domain.com) and email accounts (e.g. user@subdomain1.domain.com) would automatically work without needing to add anything on domain.com's zone file since I'm pointing the A record on another server (their records would be hosted on a separate zone file, specifically in subdomain1.domain.com's), right?
I have a couple of reseller hosting accounts on two different hosts (and planning to add another one early next year) primarily used for my my personal projects. I know that in cPanel, one can easily add new subdomain-based accounts (e.g. sudomain1.domain.com) as long as domain.com "resides" on the same reseller account (may it be fully hosted or just an addon domain).
However, I am planning to distribute these subdomain accounts on my other reseller account. So let's say I have reseller account A from host A and reseller account B from host B; I want to be able to create a new account, sudomain1.domain.com, in A and another account, subdomain2.domain.com, in B. I was thinking of hosting domain.com on a third-party DNS management service.
My question is, would this set-up work? The only thing I am seeing that needs to be done is to add a zone entry to domain.com (i.e. subdomain1 14400 IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of my reseller hosting account) everytime I create a new account.
Likewise, if I'm not mistaken, any new subdomains (e.g. www.subdomain1.domain.com) and email accounts (e.g. user@subdomain1.domain.com) would automatically work without needing to add anything on domain.com's zone file since I'm pointing the A record on another server (their records would be hosted on a separate zone file, specifically in subdomain1.domain.com's), right?