Mapping One Domain to More than One Web Hosting Account

[kabuli]

Mapping One Domain to More than One Web Hosting Account?
Please tell me if a web page in my primary web hosting account was deleted and potential visitor clicks on my website link to particular page. Would that particular page will be retrieved from secondary web hosting account?

Example:
A visitor clicks on www.example.com/webpage.htm from yahoo search results. Webpage.htm file is deleted from web hosting account at godaddy.com. However, Webpage.htm file is present on web hosting account bluehost.com. www.example.com domain has primary name server of godaddy .com and secondary name server of bluehost.com. Would Webpage.htm will be retrieved from bluehost.com if it is not present at godaddy.com (provided godaddy.com server is working fine)

[Jively]

Hi,

No this wouldn't happen the domain servers are backups if one fails the other can supply an IP address, the actual file delegation is done by the web server. The Bluehost server would never actually be shown unless the first nameserver fails to respond.

Why would you need this setup anyway (just curious)?

Thanks,
Martin

[kabuli]

Hello!
My website is become a target of hackers. They delete all the files and put their own index.html file. I wanted to keep backup of files, so that if one hosting account gets hacked, then files can be retrieved from other hosting account by the web browser. My 90% of the traffic comes from search engines; therefore, visitor trying to visit other pages can receive webpage from other hosting account.

Secondly, it will ensure uptime and high performance of website in the eyes of search engines even if one web server is not responding such as for routine maintenance.

Thank you for your reply.
Murtaza Lanewala
Author & CEO

[Jively]

Hi,

This isn't necessarily going to work - firstly: if your site is being hacked then you seriously need to look at how they are getting in and revisit your password policy (and if necessary, switch hosts altogether).

Secondly, what it looks like you are trying to do with this setup is load-balance, which isn't really how it works (yes it involves name servers, but not in the way you've got it set up there), you would need to run that through a proxy (such as NGinX)of some sort OR an actual load balancer and what you've got here is shared hosting (which canlt really be load balanced).

My recommendation would be to fix the security issue first as everything else is just a work-around (security through obscurity).

Thanks,
Martin