Is this possible? One domain routes to two different servers for two different reasons (not load balancing)

[Hades]

I would appreciate some advice on whether this is possible.

Current Situation

I have a domain which routes to some web hosting on Stablepoint.

What I Would Like To Do

I am happy with this hosting and would prefer to continue using it. But there is one extra tool I want to install which needs to be installed on a Linux server. This isn't supported by my current web hosting package. One option would be to rent a server at Stablepoint and run everything on there, rather than just use their shared web hosting. But I don't need this tool to run very often and renting a server for it would be overkill. In fact for security purposes I would prefer it shutdown unless I actually need to run it.

My Question

I would like to use a different provider for just this tool, but still accessible from the same URL. For example running it on a Linode server than can be shutdown most of the time and only started when it is needed.

www.mydomain.com <-- Main website hosted on Stablepoint web hosting
www.tools.mydomain.com (or even www.mydomain.com/tools) <-- Routes to a Linux server on Linode, but still has the same "mydomain.com" URL.

Is this possible?

Thank you.

 

[kindai]

Yes, with a subdomain very easy, you just use the A-record from your linode server etc.

Doing it as a subdirctory can be done but not worth the aggro in this scenario.

 

[Hades]

Thanks. My domain was bought through Stablepoint. So I think I just have to go to my CPanel Zone Management on Stablepoint and add an A record for tools.mydomain.com which points to the IP address of the Linode server?

e.g:
Linode server has an IP address of 10.11.12.13.
Domain name was bought and is managed through Stablepoint.
Add an A record on Stablepoint CPanel Zone Management for tools.mydomain.com pointing to 10.11.12.13

Thank you.

 

[kindai]

Yep

 

[Hades]

Thank you.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Super easy to do, I do this for a backup site in case site A goes down then people can access another URL on Site B rather than having a load balancer as it doesn't get too much traffic. Site B been self hosted, site A proper web server.