Can I mirror a website to a separate domain?

[pinchvalve]

We changed the URL of our website. Currently, we are redirecting traffic for the new URL to our old URL. This causes some issues, so we want to update the domain to the new URL. This is pretty straightforward in Hubspot, but my IT team has requested that we keep the old URL fully active for a while. That means two URLs leading to two identical sites.  This would be temporary, then we would redirect. So the question is, can we set up a mirror site in Hubspot? Any updates made to one automatically go to the other as well? 

[Jnix284]

@pinchvalve I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this request, why they would want to keep the old URL fully active instead of just redirecting it to the new URL - do you know what they are trying to solve for by doing this?

In HubSpot, you'd have to purchase an additional brand domain, clone everything, and publish everything to both domains.

To connect additional brand domains, it requires Content Hub (or Marketing/Service Hub) Enterprise AND you have to purchase the domain limits increase or Business Units add-on which would be a very costly endeavor for very little reward.

The best solution would be to use the new domain as the primary domain and the old URL as a redirect domain:

Note: You can only connect a Redirect domain after you have a Primary domain connected. Depending on your subscription, you might also see Email Sending as an option here.

[pinchvalve]

I can't speak to the reasons IT wants this, there are implications for our email and other things above my pay grade. It will be temporary, only a month or so. And yes, we have already upgraded our account to be able to do this. Since it was temporary, the good folks at Hubspot worked out a deal. I can certainly make updates to two sites for a while, I was just hoping that there was an easy button. 

[Jnix284 · Accepted solution]

@pinchvalve the easy button is to connect the old domain as the email sending domain and use the new domain for the website. You wouldn't need to change anything about your email domain for this transition.

Otherwise, the clone and publish to both is the only way to maintain both, which could cause duplicate content warnings on Google - you'd want to have both connected to Google Search Console to monitor everything closely.