Probably easy question regarding hosting & domains.....

Visage

Visage

Visage

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Okey dokey...

I want to set up a couple of blogs - one for my general use, and another so that far-flung relatives acn keep up to date about my baby (due any day now....)

However, I dont necessarily want any link between the two - the last thing Great Aunty Maud wants is to read my ****** and blinding about George Bush ;)

So is it possible, with one hosting account and two domains?

Ie If womeone goes to www.thebabyblog.com it will direct to one blog, but www.visage-rant.com will go to another blog hosted on the same service?
 
Yes, most hosts offer that. Certainly can on Dreamhost anyway, I have 1 free domain that was bundled with the package and 4 others all pointing to separate chunks of the same space.

In fact you can have sub domains too such as

baby.visage.com
and
rant.visage.com


Both with different blogs although you probably need to muck about getting that working with mod_rewrite.
 
Yes this is possible. I get hosting from http://www.catalyst2.com/ and host both by band website and blog, but they are totally seperate domains to the eye.

If your host has cpanel, just point the namesevers towards your host, wait 24 hours and go to add-on domains. Although the second domain will technically be a sub-doman of your primary, there is no visable link between the two.
 
This is the package I have - http://www.catalyst2.com/services/hosting/linux/powerxtra.asp

I can host 2 domains that are entirely seperate from 1 account in the way you describe. I'm not sure about VDS. If it is the equivilent, I may transfer to that account you have linked to if it does the same, as I have a few other domains that I have to forward, rather than actually host.
 
You could register 2 domains, then with 1 hosting package that allows sub domains, create 2 subdomains for each site, then set up web forwarding with your domain company so when you type the domain name it gets pointed to the subdomain of choice.
 
What you're looking for is 'Add-on domains' or 'extra domains', but not 'parked domains' - most companies will provide at least 1 add-on domain which will do what you need, & starscream explained how to do it:)
 
Chaos said:
You could register 2 domains, then with 1 hosting package that allows sub domains, create 2 subdomains for each site, then set up web forwarding with your domain company so when you type the domain name it gets pointed to the subdomain of choice.
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Thats not seperate though as although www.addondomain.com will redirect to the subdomain, when you are clicking links within the page, you will be visiting http://addondomain.maindomain.com rather than http://www.addondomain.com
 
starscream said:
Thats not seperate though as although www.addondomain.com will redirect to the subdomain, when you are clicking links within the page, you will be visiting http://addondomain.maindomain.com rather than http://www.addondomain.com
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Yeah. I think i understand now.

I have one domain that points to one directory in my hosting package, and then I have another domain that points to another directory, and never the twain shall meet.

Easy peasy, innit ?
 
Visage said:
Yeah. I think i understand now.

I have one domain that points to one directory in my hosting package, and then I have another domain that points to another directory, and never the twain shall meet.

Easy peasy, innit ?
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Actually, technically, one directory will actually be a subdirectory of the other. Think of it like this,

A reseller will have the root access of the html folder. When he resells hosting space, all his accounts are subdirectories of the root account. Within those subdirectories, his clients can create subfolders as well. However, all his clients are totally seperate from eachother. Now apply that principle, but one level down. Your account will have its "root" level, and everything else will be in a subdomain, but the difference of using the addon-domain is that to all intents and purposes, the subdomain is contained within itself so will always be totally seperate. Add-on domains are normally kept to a minimum with hosting companies to stop you reselling the space yourself.
 
starscream said:
the difference of using the addon-domain is that to all intents and purposes, the subdomain is contained within itself so will always be totally seperate.
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Yup - kinda - in the Apache config the document root is set to the add-on domain's folder much like for a 'normal' account the document root is set to, say, /home/user/public_html/ - so you can't tell if a domain is an add-on domain or not. I think what you mean is that becuase it's a subdirectory you can access it via domain.com/addon which is correct :) & the same for subdomain.

A reseller will have the root access of the html folder. When he resells hosting space, all his accounts are subdirectories of the root account. Within those subdirectories, his clients can create subfolders as well. However, all his clients are totally seperate from eachother.
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'Proper' reseller accounts give you access to create your own full users on the system. Not sure how Dreamhost etc run things but I know a lot of folk advertise 'multi-domain' meaning Addon domains, sort of psuedo-reseller - not really 'full' reseller style.

add-on domains are normally kept to a minimum with hosting companies to stop you reselling the space yourself.
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Close - kind of. We limit add-ons because it's preferable to have people buy more accounts - you can't really resell from them as they don't have their own logins, stats access etc :)
 
Beansprout said:
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^^ Yeah thats what I meant :) I was trying to explain it without getting too technical, but the ammount of times I had to write domain/subdomain combined with me being dyslexic got me in a right muddle :p:D

Hope it makes sense anyway. By the way, your sig isn't working, might want to get yourself some new hosting ;):p
 
starscream said:
^^ Yeah thats what I meant :) I was trying to explain it without getting too technical, but the ammount of times I had to write domain/subdomain combined with me being dyslexic got me in a right muddle : p: D

Hope it makes sense anyway. By the way, your sig isn't working, might want to get yourself some new hosting ; ) : p
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Hehee :D

Sig no workie because I killed its DNS - literally. For a few hours, twobeds.com is offline (unless you have a webserver at 127.0.0.1 ;) ) - it might be moved to a new server, you see, and it takes 12+ hrs for me to download a backup:eek:
 
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