Thanks for this @mgaussie. Appreciate the brief write-up
I had a similar playing around experience the last couple of days on Linode but am looking at Docker deploy so it will be a bit different. I’ve yet to try Plesk but agree that this would make a difference in making it easier.
One thing I did see that might help your 1st problem mentioned (and i may be way off here as i’m no expert) But i remember reading something about when you’re setting up your sub-domains or mapping your DNS records to make sure you set up a
*.mydomain.com record.
I think its called a wildcard domain. Not sure if that has ANYTHING to do with your issue but it might.
A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a *
as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com
. The exact rules for when a wild card will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly specified. This has resulted in incompatible implementations and unexpected results when they are used.