: Moving subdomain to a different hosting provider Currently my subdomain is hosted within same webhotel as my main domain. I would like to change it to point another domain (website on Windows

@Berumen354

What you are searching for is known as a CNAME record. With Windows Azure you will be given a public URL for the service usually under a domain associated with Azure. From there you change the current A record to a CNAME record with the same sub domain name and simply add the public domain for the Azure service. What will happen then is when a user tries to connect to the sub domain in question they will get back a response saying that it is a CNAME of the Azure domain and will automatically do a DNS lookup on the Azure domain to get the right IP address. The comment made above talking about getting the machines IP address is a bad idea unless you have had a dedicated IP assigned to it as many Azure endpoints have empherial IP's where the IP address can change over time with little or no notice which would break your site each time it happens, whereas by using a CNAME record the end users browser will always get the correct IP address as of that point in time.

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