Splitting domain name over two hosts

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Hi,

I want to make the move to Webflow for a client project that require a CMS. I would like some more information about the logistics and best practices of adding domains though.

Say for instance I have a client’s home page and a blog hosted on Webflow and this is accessed by their custom domain. what if I still need to host additonal files, and other pages on a traditional hosting platform with cPanel?

Would it be best to point the www.clientwebsite.com to Webfllow and keep the clientwebsite.com pointing at traditional host with a 301 redirect to the www.clientwebsite.com

I could still have pages on the traditional host for example clientwebsite.com/page.html while being able to add additional pages to Webflow e.g. www.clientwebsite.com/page.html

Basically I want to be able to use the same domain name on both Webflow and traditional hosting with cPanel, I just want to know what the best way to do this is, is there a better way to achieve this, is there anything to be careful of/ or would be considered bad practice?

Thanks in advance

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Nobody has ideas on this?

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We did something similar:

  • moved the www.we.com to Webflow (we don’t use the domain without www.)
  • created a tools.we.com on a ‘traditional’ hosting service for files and other ‘custom’ webservices we need.

The 301 redirects you then need are set up within Webflow’s (!) site settings very easily.

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Thanks for your response Norbert, very appreciated :+1: