jabba — Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:06:00 +0000

Thanks for that.
Hmmmm ... might have to rethink the strategy again then.

Jason Ellis — Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:49:00 +0000

"Does this mean that the hosting facilities (pop3/mailing lists/etc) are useless once you signon to bigmailbox ?"

Yes, it does.

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jabba — Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:08:00 +0000

A question re:bigmailbox

Being new to the hosting scene (freebie user until very soon!) I was looking at bigmailbox as a nice facility for our site members. Reading between the lines, it seems that all mail will get redirected to the bigmailbox server for processing. Does this mean that the hosting facilities (pop3/mailing lists/etc) are useless once you signon to bigmailbox ?

hostinvestigator — Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:44:00 +0000

There is always a possibility of spam occuring or illegal material passing through your mail server. If your MX record points to another server then the load is not on the hosting company (like you said). But if people complain then it is Communitech that will get the bad reputation and because they are the hosting company, and serve your website and people would naturally conclude they serve your mail needs, there a few people that would actually query MX records.

Gil — Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:06:00 +0000

Hey guys, CT is really a cooke cutter type host. They aren't flexible at all, and are basically the exact opposite of iserver.com. So if any of you are thinking of hosting with CT, know that they won't bend the rules for you. They don't even allow unlimited bandwidth as they claim they do (hmm, false advertising?). But of course, you wouldn't find that out until youhost with CT and start reading their forums.

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CWebNetCo — Mon, 12 Jul 1999 03:43:00 +0000

gokewl,

If you want a full control over your domain such as MX Records, Control Domains, etc. I suggest go to iServer (www.iserver.com) then you can do anything you want at your own end then you could have fixed up the MX Records in no time. That is the best bet you can get.

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Jason Ellis — Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:52:00 +0000

Malte-

Name Secure doesn't host your site - it would still be hosted by Communitech. What I suggested you do was to use Name Secure to run your DNS entries - that is a service they provide. You would still host with Communitech, but Name Secure's DNS servers would simply direct your domain to the IP address CT gave you. There are other companies that do this, but Name Secure was the first that sprang to mind.

You'd have to ask Name Secure about the sub domains thing - I'm guessing that if CT provides separate IP addresses for each sub domain (like we do here), then yes, Name Secure could forward the site to that IP. But I don't know that for certain - you'd need to ask Name Secure.

Good luck,

Jason

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Sat, 10 Jul 1999 22:47:00 +0000

Could I still have sub domains with name secure?

I got kinda confused with their site, they really dont advertise to host your domain and give you full control over your DNS but they rather show stuff like website and email forwarding.

Thank You,

Malte

Jason Ellis — Sat, 10 Jul 1999 20:59:00 +0000

One thing you could do would be to run your DNS through another company - say NameSecure (www.namesecure.com) - that would point all your different DNS records wherever you wanted them to point - thus bypassing Communitech's MX record policy.

On the other hand, if Communitech is so anal about MX records, maybe they have some freaky policy about not letting their clients use external name servers, in which case I guess they wouldn't let you do it.

From my perspective, we are always happy to adjust DNS records for our customers. I mean, really - it takes 30 seconds to edit the record in each name server - that's a minute all told - and then we never have to touch the thing again. It makes no sense to me why anyone would refuse to do that.

But, that's just my opinion. Good luck!

Jason Ellis, CEO
Hosting Solutions, Inc.

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Webmaster — Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:30:00 +0000

no that wouldn't be possible. All resellers would have to follow all of CT's rules.