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Hello!
what companies offer hosting for multiple domains under one account?

-Steve

<<ADMIN EDIT>>

OK, i don't think my post above was very clear. So let me clear it up

I have a website, and I decided to start another one. I don't want to have to pay for two accounts, so I was wondering if some web hosts let you have two domains (two different sites) under one account.
I am not looking to link two domains (example: mydomain.com and mydomain.net) to the same page.

Does this exist? And which hosts offer it?

Thank You!

It does exist. Most hosts offer you this either for a one time charge to DNS a domain to a sub folder within the first domain, some also charge a monthly fee in addition to that (usually $3-10/mo). I think it is hard to recommend a host based solely on that though. Pretty common, ask any host you are interested in what the fees are to do this.

Also, you might want to look at that host's cheapest account. Sometimes it is better to get a cheap full account instead of adding the domain like this!

Thanks for the info!!

I think that I was looking at a webhost who provided this feature free, a while ago. Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me, though.

Does nayone know of a host that provides this feature for free?

-Steve

Again, this really shouldn't be the #1 reason you pick a host. While BLAHHOSTING might offer it for free, they also might have terrible customer service, not enough space, not enough bandwidth for your site, etc.

Aside form that, I haven't seen too many hosts offering that for free. You should be able to easily find one that offers it for a one time fee (usually $25) for each domain added. Also, there are hosts that offer multiple domain accounts (5 domains, sometimes with 5 IP addresses), but the price is usally higher, so I am not sure you could call it free exactly.

Post the requirements of your sites (type of site, space, b/w, features needed, etc.), and maybe we can get you going in a direction. Without this, any advice about hosts I (or anyone else) gives you should be ignored

I know your situation, as I have about 20 domains.

Originally posted by Chicken:
I haven't seen too many hosts offering that for free. You should be able to easily find one that offers it for a one time fee (usually $25) for each domain added. Also, there are hosts that offer multiple domain accounts (5 domains, sometimes with 5 IP addresses), but the price is usally higher, so I am not sure you could call it free exactly.

Post the requirements of your sites (type of site, space, b/w, features needed, etc.), and maybe we can get you going in a direction. Without this, any advice about hosts I (or anyone else) gives you should be ignored

I know your situation, as I have about 20 domains.

Well, my current host (phpwebhosting.com)would be perfect, but they do not support this feature.

They offer 200 MB of webspace (well, they say it is unlimited, but we all know that nothing is), which is more than I'm going to be using. 100mb will probably be plenty.

They have 2gigs of bandwith (again, they say it's unlimited). I might go over that, but I highly doubt it. But, my current host would be fine with that since they are more flexible about this.

Right now I only have 2 domains, but I might have more (I kept this in mind when writing the specs above).

How about a service like redirection.net? They redirect your domain for $20.00 a year (including domain registration -you own the domain-). I could have this redirect to a place on my current domain. Is this a good service? Does it slow the loading time?
It sounds great for my situation.

Thanks!!!

[fthosting]

<<ADMIN EDIT>>

Otherwise id use futurequest from what ive heard about them.

You could also check out myinternet.com (free domain stealth redirection and sometimes only worth free due to downtimes but getting better), and bn3.com which is actually a free email provider, but also could be used for non-stealth redirection.

This all adds another link in the chain, and one more reason for your site to be inaccessible, but... obviously it is better to do this at your host and save the step.

[Rietta Solutions]

If your web hosting account runs a Unix system with Apache server, you have your own IP address, and your web host has wild card domains enabled then you may be able to use .htaccess to run multiple domains on your account. .htaccess files will henceforth be called HTACCESS in this post.

For example, if you are running firstdomain.com as your main account and want to also run seconddomain.com on your account you could use something like the following in your HTACCESS:

Code Example

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

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

Your new “document root” for seconddomain.com will public_html/seconddomain. You will need to point seconddomain.com to your IP address using a DNS service such as myinternet.com.

All HTACCESS rules from your main directory are followed recursively into the secondary domain folders; so your error document handlers may work incorrectly with the secondary domain. However, you can define new rules under an independent HTACCESS in the secondary directory.

Problems

Case Sensitive

The domain name will be case sensitive, so SecondDomain.com will not work. However, you can fix this problem by placing redirects for the most common case spellings of your domain. For example:

Redirect /SecondDomain http://www.seconddomain.com 
Redirect /ATLANTAWEBHOST http://www.  seconddomain.com
Redirect /Seconddomainhttp://www.seconddomain.com
Redirect /secondDomain http://www.seconddomain.com

Directory Listing

If a forward slash is not specified at the end of a directory that does not have a default document (index.html and etc.), it will be resolved to firstdomain.com/seconddomain/directory/. I have not been able to find a solution to this that uses an account level HTACCESS.


Warnings

The Apache Mod Rewrite engine is EXTREAMLY complex. I would not recommend anyone who is not a programmer try to figure it out. The rewrite engine can also use a lot of resources processing requests, if your second obtains a large number of visitors, you should get a separate account for it or your web host might shut your site down.

Please use this information at your own risk. My staff and I will not be able to provide support for you. Even our company does not officially allow this technique on our servers, but we do not prohibit it either.

USE THIS INFORMATION AT YOUR OWN RISK

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

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AtlantaWebhost.com – Web Solutions that Work
Phone: 770-623-2059
Fax: 770-495-0914
E-Mail: websolutions@rietta.com


[This message has been edited by Rietta Solutions (edited 06-11-2000).]

Yikes!
That's looking a little risky!

I asked my host if the support multiple domains, so I probably have a better chance of getting caught. They said that they used to, but don't anymore, because it caused problems. So, I'm not gonna risk it.

But, thanks!

[Genady Perchenko]

<<ADMIN EDIT>>

[phpwebhosting.com]

I work for phpwebhosting.com and I noticed that Steve mentioned that we offer unlimited diskspace and transfer. This is not true. We have never offered unlimited anything and any hosting company that says they do is lying.

We used to offer unmetered diskspace (we have had to change this as of late) and we still offer unmetered transfer. This just means that while we do have a general limit on usage, the limits are not hard and we do not charge extra for going the limit.

Best regards,

Karen
Sales Department
phpwebhosting.com

[Chicken]

Originally posted by phpwebhosting.com
...and we still offer unmetered transfer. This just means that while we do have a general limit on usage, the limits are not hard and we do not charge extra for going the limit.

Karen, thanks for the errrrrr clarification? I'm still not sure what that means, but so long as you guys do.

[cbaker17]

I would stay away from any company that advertises in a non advertising forum and who wont even bother to register or answer a persons question. Just my 2 cents