I am working on a web application (LAMP stack) that has the code/dependencies for the marketing/landing pages tied in with the application code. The app is hosted on the rackspace cloud.
I've been thinking about whether or not these two sites should be left together, separated on the same server, or hosted on entirely separate servers.
What is common when it comes to hosting marketing/landing pages for web apps? If I need to host the sites on separate ip's or separate servers, what steps will I need to take to have two separate ip's referring to the same base URL. Is it going to be a problem to have a https connection from two seperate ips? If it is, I can likely have all the secure pages on one IP. What would be the correct term used to describe two ips pointing to one base url?
The structure would be:
example.com/landing-page (hosted on x.x.x.1) example.com/module/app-page (hosted on x.x.x.2)
Any articles or blog posts that discuss this topic?
THANKS!
So, you want the 2 web apps to have access to the same underlying PHP files, like functions, classes, etc? Yeah, that's possible, but not sure if the Rackspace cloud allows this. A dedicated server that you can set 2 IP addresses to with separate virtual hosts will allow this with simple symbolic links and as long as the files are executable by the web user (usually apache)
Hope that answers your question. If you give more details, I may be able to answer your question more accurately.