Welcome to the Q&A Forum

We are redirecting page-level content (about 500 pages) from several sub domains to our main site. With IIS, It’s my understanding that file locations must match.

For example:

subdomain/pathA/filename1
mainsite/pathA/filename1

Since the sub domain files are not on the main site, this means we'd create up to 500 zero byte dummy files on the new server and replicate the sub domain directory structure.

With IIS is there a work around for handling page level redirects without duplicating the file location?

In the case of white papers, videos and case studies, we'll imlement directory level redirection.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the HTTP status code analogy.  The comment adds the perspective I need to explain this to my technical manager.

We are migrating content from 10 sub domains to our www site.  On an IIS sever, what is potential server load impact, if any, for setting up 500 plus page level redirects?