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johncsim
02-10-2003, 04:34 PM
Ok, I am totally lost. I am looking to move my site to a new host that has ASP...While looking at host I ran accross one that also lets you reseller space under my domain name. What I would like to charge user $25 a year for the webspace and email accounts, and charge $10 a year for just email. I have no experence do this. Or shoulc I just resell email account to keep it easier. I know this is very vague, but I am looking for any input.

Thanks in advance. John

BradleyT
02-10-2003, 04:47 PM
Since I'm doing the ASP work for his site I'll give you guys some more info.

Basically what John wants to do is this.

He owns www.HisSite.com (not the actual name obviously)

For $10/year he would like people to be able to get email with an address of username@HisSite.com - that would be as simple as getting a web hosting account with unlimited domain aliases correct?

For say $20/year he would like people to be able to get username.HisSite.com and have a small webpage - nothing too fancy.

Basically to get users to be able to "own" username.HisSite.com does he need a reseller account or just a normal hosting account with unlimited subdomains?

brandonk
02-10-2003, 06:31 PM
Here is what I suggest:

1) Email--find a host that offers unlimited pop3 accounts (assuming pop3 is the kind of email). Aliases are for forwarding email from user@hissite.com to their@emailisp.com

2) Sub-domains--Get an account with unlimited subdomains. If the host has CPanel you can setup an ftp username for each subdomain, restrict the ftp user to /theirdir/ and point subdomain.hissite.com to /theirdir/ all of which can be done with CPanel.

Hope that helps. ;)