Subdomains and Hosting Services - a Question:

[JustaWizard]

I host with BlueHost, and so with them when you sign up they give you a free domain name when you sign up, let's call that " www . SignedUpFreeDomainName . com" and you get unlimited hosting for other domains you host with them...

....BUT BUT BUT - although those other domains do stand alone as www . AnotherDomainName . com, in reality, each hosted domain name also has a URL www . SignedUpFreeDomainName . AnotherDomainName . com

(spaces added agove to prevent that turning into a clickable URL in this post...)

I asked BlueHost today if there was a way to get rid of that second URL and make it not exist, they said no way... you're stuck with an extra URL, like it or not.

Soooo does HostGator do the same thing? Are there other hosting services as great as BlueHost that don't force that unwanted/extra subdomain-style URL on you?

Thanks!

David

[JustaWizard]

Anyone?? :-)

[Lloyd Buchinski]

Originally Posted by JustaWizard

in reality, each hosted domain name also has a URL www . SignedUpFreeDomainName . AnotherDomainName . com

Where do you see or find that 'reality?' I do have an account that allows unlimited domains. I have a DirectAdmin control panel and I've read a couple of times that it handles sub domains better than cPanel so that might be it, but I've never seen that arrangement.

[JustaWizard]

Originally Posted by Lloyd Buchinski

Where do you see or find that 'reality?' I do have an account that allows unlimited domains. I have a DirectAdmin control panel and I've read a couple of times that it handles sub domains better than cPanel so that might be it, but I've never seen that arrangement.

If you have bluehost too, then just type www . whateverdomaintheygaveyou . whateverotherdomainyouhave . com, and it'll show up... that URL is a subdomain. I'm not makin' it up! :-)

David

[Frank Donovan]

David,

You don't say whether your unlimited domains account is a reseller account.

If it is, you'll typically have a main control set up (Hostgator, for example, call theirs a Web Host Manager or WHM) where you configure each new domain, which then has its own cPanel account.

If you just have an unlimited domains facility (i.e. not a reseller account), you may have to put up with whatever the hosting company stipulates, but I don't know the details of Bluehost's arrangement - you should speak to them.

Of course, just because you are offered a free domain, you don't have to accept it. You could just use another of your domains, registered elsewhere, and maintain more control.


Frank

[rondo]

David when you 'addon' a domain in cPanel it creates both a subdomain and a subfolder of the main domain.

When you upload your new site you upload it to the subfolder, but otherwise you can ignore the subdomain and subfolder - and don't link to them.


Andrew

[Lloyd Buchinski]

Originally Posted by JustaWizard

If you have bluehost too, then just type www . whateverdomaintheygaveyou . whateverotherdomainyouhave . com, and it'll show up... that URL is a subdomain. I'm not makin' it up! :-)

David

Don't have bluehost and have a DA control panel. I just tried it 2 different ways and it just gets "address not found." Good luck with that. It is something I would also try to rub out.