by sagegreen1952 » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:23 pm
I need some basic information about hosting multiple domains. I have four sites--two are retail sites and two are information/professional sites. They are not related.
I have separate hosting with godaddy for three of them. The money starts adding up. I tried ipowerweb for the last one, because they have multiple domains with my hosting package with them. I have not used it yet, but have started reading about it and I am confused. I contacted customer support and they said to do subdomains and then use pointing to the domain names. But I cannot logically do subdomain URLs with totally unrelated sites it seems to me, unless the pointers show a different URL, the site's original URL. Does this make sense?
I have contacted hostgator, because I am not impressed with ipowerweb's service, and I love the online hostgator tutorials and Q&As. Their customer support said that they use subdomains also (unlimited sites for the baby package) and if I wanted separate domain accounts go with the reseller package.
I guess one of the things that I don't understand is what exactly is a pointer and what does it do? And how do you multiply host total divergent web sites?
Sorry to be so longwinded, but this particular question has already had great info and I figured now is my chance to understand this topic.
Jo-Ann