Shared hosting setup

mhbernheim

• November 29, 2018 15:30

Hi Guys, ill try to explain myself as simply as possible, we have 3 servers that are no longer going to be put to use, so we decided to set them up for shared hosting, they are running whm... our main website, is also running on a whm centos server. the 3 servers are alex.example.com riley.example.com paige.example.com we have example.com running as an account on another server with WHM as well, when setting up alex, riley and paige, we get asked for nameservers for these servers, do we need to create the NS entries in example.com.db zone file (ns1alex.example.com, ns2alex.example.com, ns1riley.example.com, ns2riley.example.com, ns1paige.example.com, ns2paige.example.com) so that each server has its own nameserver so that customers can simply POINT to those nameservers with their registrar to start using their accounts or am I missing something here? thanks!!!!!

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  cPanelLauren

  • November 30, 2018 18:45

  Hi @mhbernheim

  do we need to create the NS entries in example.com.db zone file (ns1alex.example.com, ns2alex.example.com, ns1riley.example.com, ns2riley.example.com, ns1paige.example.com, ns2paige.example.com) so that each server has its own nameserver so that customers can simply POINT to those nameservers with their registrar to start using their accounts or am I missing something here?

  
  You'd need to create an A record for each of the proposed nameservers on the server where DNS is hosted for example.com. The rest would be handled on each of the servers where the nameservers points to. You might want to look at DNS clustering as well Guide to DNS Cluster Configurations - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Thanks!

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  mhbernheim

  • November 30, 2018 20:22

  Thanks so much for jumping in, I've tried this out actually, on example.com.db zone file theres this ns1secondserver 14000 IN A x.x.x.1 ns2secondserver 14400 IN A x.x.x.2 on secondserver.com godaddy nameserver selection, i set them to ns1secondserver.example.com and ns2secondserver.example.com, godaddy wont take them and apparently wont recognize them as proper name servers. on secondserver.example.com x.x.x.1 and x.x.x.2 are properly configured as ns1secondserver and ns2secondserver respectively... thoughts?

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  cPanelLauren

  • December 03, 2018 14:35

  Hi @mhbernheim You'll need to create the host records at GoDaddy first before you can add them as nameservers. They have a few articles such as this one: Add my own host names as nameservers | Domains - GoDaddy Help US which explain how this is done. Thanks!

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  mhbernheim

  • December 03, 2018 20:10

  Thank you, I have done this... ns1secondserver.example.com and ns2secondserver.example.com, ive pointed them to the second cpanel server's nameserver ip's and created a records for both nameservers on the second cpanel server and on the example.com.db zone file... when changing any domains nameservers to point to ns1secondserver.example.com and ns2secondserver.example.com it wont load.

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  cPanelLauren

  • December 04, 2018 15:50

  Hi @mhbernheim Can you confirm that you also created the namservers in WHM>>Server Configuration>>Basic WebHost Manager Setup

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  mhbernheim

  • December 04, 2018 15:51

  @cpLauren

  Hi @mhbernheim Can you confirm that you also created the namservers in WHM>>Server Configuration>>Basic WebHost Manager Setup

  
  Our service provider had not provisioned the correct ip's, we noticed this when trying to nmap all IP's on the shared hosting server, it is now working as it should... thanks again for your help!

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  cPanelLauren

  • December 04, 2018 17:05

  Hi @mhbernheim That would explain it! I'm glad you guys got it sorted out and thanks for the update.

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