Our company has a website, and now we would like to also have a blog in order to improve SEO. We use EC2 to host our website, and I would prefer having the blog run on its own EC2 server. I have read that running the blog on subdomains like blog.example.com as opposed to www.example.com/blog will hurt SEO, so we have decided to go for the latter option. One of my developers describes that we could possibly still utilize a dedicated server for the blog if by using some kind of .htaccess trick. Since I do not know exactly what that trick is, this might not be a good question, but I was wondering whether having two different IP-addresses host one website will hurt SEO? Will they get their own Page Authority?
Will it hurt SEO if I use a dedicated server for the blog-part of our website?
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The only two ways to host a subdirectory such as /blog on a different server are:Use a reverse proxy.  This will end up involving both servers.  This can end up slowing the site down because it involves two servers, one of which re-serves the content.Use a framed redirect.  This makes it appear to naive users that the content is in the subdirectory, but is actually hosted on another server.  It won't work for search engines.You could put the blog on a subdomain: blog.example.com.   That allows you to separate the hosting.   A subdomain is fine for a blog from an SEO standpoint.   Google can treat a subdomain as part of the main site.  That is especially true when the content of a subdomain is the same topic, registered in Google Webmaster Tools by the same account, interlinks to the main site, and has the same copyright.  The number of IP addresses hosting your site is not a relevant factor for SEO.I would suggest moving your blog to a subdomain so that you can easily host it the way you want.