GlowHost.com — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:05:01 +0000

Make sure that if you use a control panel that it will support creation of email addresses and all the other functionality of the main site's control panel.

You'd prolly hate to find out that youd have to contact a server admin everytime you wanted an email address created for the multihosted/subdomain park.

zollet — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:19:17 +0000

1. Yes, you'll need to have a subdomain that points to that subfolder and then park the new domain over the subdomain.
2. It will look like a real site with its own domain name.
3. Yes, a lot of people do this.

REVIVING THREAD

fifeclub — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:52:42 +0000

This thread's a little old and my question was answered but I now have a real world example so I want to revive the thread. Regarding "parking" only. I've got a redirection service that points to a site's real location. That url is softball.at/charlotte. It used to point to a site that went away but I moved the content to my personal site and redirected the service to the new location. The real location of the site is mikesussman.com/softball. This is obviously just a subfolder of my website, but if you never looked at the url, most people wouldn't know it - except for the fact that all the search engines list the "real urls" and not my redirection service (which is what I promote).

Now my hosting company would rather sell me a new domain (which I may need to do down the road if it gets popular) so I want to ask here first. I want to look into what can be done with parking a new domain. Can it be used to "host" another site on the unused resources of another site?

1. Can I have it parked to a subfolder of the root domain?
2. If so, would visitors or search engines ever know that it's really hosted on this other domain or will the parking "cover up the truth"?
3. If so, do lots of people do this if they've got the spare resources.

P.S. FYI, To keep the "stealth frame" of the redirection service, I used a javascript to prevent showing the url's in the status bar.
P.P.S. I already have another domain parked on my main site, but that points to the root directory so it's not the same situation as what I'm asking about.

nuk3 — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:56:55 +0000

I guess he would have been covered in the first place if he used Sarvi Hosting

zollet — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:39:22 +0000

Well, I am kind of a tech guy

fifeclub — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:15:44 +0000

Ah, yes. Thank you. If only the tech guys (or gals) could have put it so simply :)I have a parked domain now that access the same exact site. But in the case of what I'm thinking about (a completely different website but sharing the same resources) would be the later choice. Thanks.

zollet — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:45:45 +0000

Mike,

A "parked" domain is basically an additional domain that points to a site. I.e. domain.com and domain.net show the same site.

A "multihosted" domain is a domain that points to a subdomain/subfolder of another account which is good when you want to host multiple domains in a single account.

Both options are transparent to the users since both show up like real accounts and I'm sure you've understood by now that what you want is a multihosted domain.