FrankR — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:33:31 +0000

Hey Ruth:

Great catch! I had thought Blazeix was using "hostname" in the DNS sense. You correctly point out that the terminology might be confusing in the face of the system's hostname. However, NetCraft still counts domains as hosts

Frank

Ruth — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:26:39 +0000

Blazeix;209966 wrote: Hi, I'm doing some research on selecting a domain name, and I have two hopefully simple questions. Say I want to have two different websites on one computer. The sites would share the same top and second-level domains but would have different hostnames. Is this possible? To make sure I 'm being clear, here is an example of what I want:
site1.example.com
site2.example.com
Can I have both these sites on the same computer? If so, my server is running Debian, does anyone know how I would go about setting this up? Thank you for your time.

You can al ot of sites on one computer, but not hostnames. In your example
site1.example.com
site2.example.com
site1 and site2 third level domains.

FrankR — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:23:09 +0000

Sure, you can have multiple host names on a single machine. That's called virtual hosting. Check out your web server documentation on how to configure it. In Apache, it is easy to set up in the httpd.conf file. Generally, each service must be configured separately to deal with the several hostnames.