We own a domain, mydomain.com, which is registered at Ionos and which has a lot of, as yet, unused storage available to it. Our main website URL has been hosted on SquareSpace since 2015, we are out of room there, our template is obsolete and the whole site is in need of a face lift.
Back on Ionos we can create a subdomain, say new.mydomain.com, but I can't quite work out if we can keep the main URL still pointing to the SquareSpace site whilst pointing the subdomain at the local Ionos storage.
I've never truly got my head around DNS records, but is this possible by creating a new CNAME record?
What we would dearly love to end up with is the current site still on SquareSpace and accessible via the main URL and extra pages, data etc hosted back on Ionos and accessible via new.mydomain.com.
Ionos also offer Wordpress as a "built in" option, could we point a subdomain at this whilst retaining the main site on SquareSpace?
Or must we just go and buy ourselves a new domain such as mydomain_new.com and point that to the Ionos storage?
Later
I had a fairly long chat with a very helpful lady at the Ionos help desk. She had to ask her colleagues, but the answer seemed to be yes. However when she created a subdomain on our account it did indeed point to our webspace at Ionos but when I did exactly the same remotely it pointed to SquareSpace! We could not explain this, but a day later both are now pointing to our webspace without anyone apparently doing anything.
This is not the end of the saga, unfortunately when you enter either of the new subdomains' URLs into a browser it gives an error "This site can’t be reached" so the link isn't complete. out webspace at Ionos contains just the ubiquitous "Hello world" index.html .
Frankly I'm scared to tamper with the subdomain settings too much in case I break the main site's connections to SquareSpace which is live and must stay working.