Running Multiple Websites on a Rackspace Windows Cloud Server with one IP

24. August 2010 19:38 by viperguynaz in .NET, Windows, Featured  //  Tags: , ,   //   Comments (2)

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by RackspaceMike Mosey is his Rackspace Cloud Blog post http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/08/23/running-multiple-websites-on-a-cloud-server-with-1-ip/ addressed how to run multiple Websites on an Apache server.  What if you are running IIS7 on a Windows server?  Well - yes you can - easily run multiple websites on one IP using Host Headers (bindings in IIS).  In this brief post, I'll describe how to set it up in IIS.  The Rackspace Windows Cloud Servers just came out of Beta.  As an initial Beta customer I was extremely impressed with how easy it was to setup and provision a Windows server. Launch Windows Servers on the Cloud in Minutes.

 

To get started, learn more about Cloud Computing & Hosting from Rackspace.  After your server is provisioned as a website, follow the directions in Rackspace's knowledgebase to setup your DNS A an d CNAME records for each website's domain.  Then in IIS, simply create your websites and assign the domains in the bindings for each site.

 

 

Good luck and Happy Hosting!  

Don

Comments (2) -

Rigo
9/1/2010 10:15:11 AM #

This works if you have a single site with different names poiting to it.  It works but it creates a mess for SEO if you want them to show in Google.  301 redirects are better if you want all names go to a single site.

If you need to host another website with different content, let IIS do the work and just create another website--and of course point it to same IP

viperguynaz
9/10/2010 7:34:59 PM #

@RIGO - actually the example bindings I show are for a multi-portal DNN site so they are actually completely different sites.  My other article - www.falconwebtech.com/.../...NN-installations.aspx - describes how to use canonical domain names & a 301 redirect for one site.

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