IMOP - The best is to get each account for each domain to prevent Hosting companies to shut down your account. They can just say X domain of yours are using too much resources,etc and thats it!

Hi there,

I'm currently using FutureQuest to host some of my sites, and use their domain stacking option quite extensively (the ability to have multiple sites with their own domains running on a single account). The problem is that they charge a $25 setup fee for each new domain, which I suppose is fair, but I'd rather not pay. Are there any RELIABLE hosts offering this, that do not charge or charge only a minimal setup fee for the subsequent domains?

PS. Each domain needs to have it's own email (i.e. whatever@thatdomain.com)

Thanks!

I do not know of many web hosts that would offer the services that you described. The fact that FutureQuest does offer the option for $25 seams like a great deal. While it is great for customers to be able to host multiple domains on a single account, most web hosts do not like to offer that option. If a client is hosting four web sites on a single account, the web host is carrying the load of four sites with the financial income of only one site.

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

Rietta Solutions
Internet: http://web.rietta.com
E-Mail: websolutions@rietta.com
Phone: 770-623-2059
Fax: 770-495-0914

My company offers the same option with our reseller account. However, while we do not charge any set up fee, we do charge $5 extra per month for each domain you host with us after initial 2 domains hosted. So basically you paying $60 per year for each domain which is covers additional traffic cost.

I think that your best bet might be staying with FutureQuest. From what I heard they have one of the best reputation in the industry and gambling your multiple websites on somebody else just to save a dollar might not be the best option for you.

Genady Perchenko
AnGen Computing
gperchenko@angen.net
http;//www.angen.net

My company Symbiosis.Nu might be able to help you out. We offer accounts with multi-domain support. Our web site is http://www.symbiosis.nu/

One possibility for you might be to use a service such as myinternet.com, then use a CGI script to redirect other domains to subdirectories. This way, you can stay at futurequest, who seems to have a very good reputation, and get out of paying the $25.

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The use of a redirect CGI will work, so long as you have a unique ip.

It is also possible to do that through the use of .htaccess.

The MyDomain product as MyInternet is free (u just pay the InterNIC charges for your domains). It gives u the functionality to redirect the domain to another URL.

e.g. www.mynewdomain.com (http://www.mynewdomain.com) - www.mydomain.com/anylocation (http://www.mydomain.com/anylocation)

If you want to make it look like a completely separate site, you would need a dedicated IP address for your host, then point the www.mynewdomain.com (http://www.mynewdomain.com) to the IP address at MyDomain. On your server, the default page would have to do a calculation to work out where to go. For example, index.asp would work out what content to display based on the requested domain name.

Here is one example of using an .htaccess file to simulate a second domain:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[^.]+\.maindomain\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([^.]+)\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seconddomain
RewriteRule ^(.*) %1/$1/ [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !maindomain\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seconddomain
RewriteRule ^(.*) %1/$1/ [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.[^.]+\.maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[^.]+\.maindomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.seconddomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^seconddomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C]


[This message has been edited by Rietta Solutions (edited 04-15-2000).]

What ever you do stay away from http://www.symbiosis.nu/ I asked him for references once and he refused to provide those to me. I have heard horror stories about this company on allot of other boards and form what I have heard he has been kicked off of boards in the past. So do yourself a big favor and stay away from that clown.

Thank you very much for all your replies.

Does anyone know of any web site or other resource that might describe the process of setting up this .htaccess file (for dummies as it were)?

Is the .htaccess file similar to the index.asp file described in one of the replies?

Thanks again for your help!

Jerry, I have realized who you are, you are Dave of JRC Systems. Bummer, I searched on Host Search.com's message board, and noticed the ips were very very close.

This is not quite what you might be looking for but maybe i can be of help. This is not yet advertised on our site. We can host 10 domains for you like this. You choose one of our paid hosting solutions maybe the starter package at £4.95 a month and pay for this account on a yearly basis and well let you host upto 10 domains for £30 a year all getting the saem features as your primary account and we can also set them upto to cloak or redirect to your primary domain. So technically you would be paying £90/$144 a year. We also if needed will charge £5 per 5 domains after 10 so it becomes a £1 a domain. Maybe not what you are looking for but an option if you want more details email me.

Also can you kep personal bikkering to a minimum it does make either of your comapny's look big. Infact if i saw a personal bickering match between two hosts i would not consider hosting with them just my 25p

Originally posted by John:
Jerry, I have realized who you are, you are Dave of JRC Systems. Bummer, I searched on Host Search.com's message board, and noticed the ips were very very close.



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.htaccess is a text file that serves as a configuration file for Unix accounts. It is not rendered by the browser, but is used to effect how the site operates. For instance, one can use the .htaccess file to specify custom error messages, redirect pages, set directory passwords, and much more. The mod rewrite engine becomes very complicated and even I do not fully understand it!

I would suggest searching for .htaccess and see what you can dig up.

[URL=http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&sc=on&hl=on&q=.htaccess&kl=XX&stype=stext]http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&sc=on&hl=on&q=.htaccess&kl=XX&stype=stext[/UR L] is AltaVista’s information.

Best regards,
Frank Rietta


Does anyone know of any web site or other resource that might describe the process of setting up this .htaccess file (for dummies as it were)?

Is the .htaccess file similar to the index.asp file described in one of the replies?


[This message has been edited by Rietta Solutions (edited 04-17-2000).]