Two Different IP Addresses For Different Parts Of One Site Okay?
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I have a client who has a site in Drupal and, for reasons too complicated to go iinto, wants to host part of the site in Wordpress from a different server.
So it would be like oldsiteexample.com being in Drupal and the new oldsiteexample.com/marketing and everything below /marketing being in wordpress on a different server, obviously with a different IP address.
Are there SEO considerations in this? The existing oldsiteexample.com has a lot of authority/rank/traffic and don't want to inadvertently risk that.
Thanks... Darcy
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Dear Darcy,
If I detected that you do not have a friend with this problem and maybe it's you? Just player and comment I do not want to lose all of the authority? I don't blame you I would not want to lose rank and authority for anything. However WordPress is a better platform for search engines way it is designed is easier for the Google bot crawl and if you build the site the correct way with static links via a CDN maybe take a look at zippykid.com they build in a true enterprise level content delivery network not one but two CDN's with Enterprise DynECT DNS for only $25 a month and 100,000 page views they are spectacular. At $25 a month total a lot of stuff for such little money on a enterprise level firewall load balanced private cloud. I would have a look at them. Your site will be much faster With WordPress if you host it correctly and if you use a plug-in like WordPress Seo by Yoast On with the CDM to make every blink 100% static and what Google bought craves. Please do heed this warning do not use a free theme it is not a wise idea and 99.99% of the time. I would suggest going to WordPress.org then going to commercial some of my personal suggestions studio press number one Woo themes is a great platform and there are many many more like thesis or hybrid. Color labs project is also pretty awesome but with Genesis / studio press you can never go wrong. I challenge you to do this. Take your existing website and running on pingdom run it through all three servers and if your site speed is averaged over 3 Seconds on any one of your chosen servers get rid of your platform you can make it in WordPress and have your cake and eat it too. All you have to do is speak to one of the people that run the hosting companies I have spoken about or just going to WordPress and explain your situation or better yet stay here and keep asking us questions because you can do what you have set out to do and you will be okay. However WordPress is simply a better tool in my humble opinion and a much faster one that people are writing a lot more code for and look Accelerating much more rapidly then it's competitors so If your pinngdom speed is over three seconds switch everything over to WordPress
You can move your site to a different framework and retain your current rankings. I'm not going to lie to you and say that you will not have a small bit of lag before the search. But it will pay off strongly and if you're going to start messing with your Website you might as well to it the right way.
Respectfully,
Thomas
PS if you have any questions about what I've said please do not hesitate to ask I would be happy to answer
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I hope this helps but everything Justin just told you is absolutely true. This is done more often in e-commerce websites where they're using stronger less similar frameworks and adding a word press blog. I would try to convince your friend not to mix-and-match to Paul with WordPress I don't understand the benefit but then again I don't get to see the projects so I should just tell you the fax. Yes you definitely can run WordPress separately on a different host and there are separate IP address is used all the time when you think about it in DNS your email, FTP sometimes that's FTPS definitely SFT P yeah I could go on. However I will spare us all. Remember with word press to get a strong managed WordPress post that's my best advice for your friend. I would look at WP engine, Pagely, zippy kid, web synthesis, page labs, they are the leaders in this industry right now and it really pays off a lot to use one of them. You can also help your friend I don't know if this is allowed or not you might want to check but you yourself get four months of WP engine for free through pro perks you can find it at the bottom of the page or 30% off for a life of Pagely through pro perks you can find it at the bottom of the page.
I hope I have been of help to you and please remember Justin's the one that told you first so don't forget to tip him well.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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What you are looking to do is reasonably common place.
Websites that contain a blogs, download sections etc are often hosted on separate webservers (and IP's), so what you are looking at doing should be fine.
You seem to have the major SEO consideration covered and that is to use subdirectories from the existing domain (www.oldsiteexample.com/marketing) that way your new part of the site will benefit from the authority/rank etc of the old site, also any authority generated by the new part of the site will be passed on in part to www.oldsiteexample.com further boosting its auth.
If however you use subdomains (marketing.oldsiteexample.com) you would pretty much be starting your seo efforts for this part of the site from scratch, furthermore very little (if any) authority generated by this part of the site would be passed back to www.oldsiteexample.com
I hope that helps
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