Parking?
Can somebody explain this to me. I wrote the following email to my host's support. (This is all regarding a cPanel5):
Quote:
Can somebody explain to me in detail what "parking" a domain on an existing account is/does/how it works? If I buy another domain and "park" it on my current account, I'm told it becomes a folder beneath the main public_html folder and shares account resources. But will it apprear to end users as being it's own domain or will the primary account be revealed? Just looking for details. Thanks.
This is the reply I got back:
Quote:
I shall give you a brief outline on how parking and multihosting works.
Firstly your primary domain say domain.com points as follows
domain.com -> /home/accountname/public_html.For parking it is parkedomain.com -> domain.com but the difference will be that when a user looks at it , it will be shown in the URL as parkedomain.com itself.
For Multihosted domain, multihostedomain.com -> subdomain.domain.com; ie it will point to a folder within /home/accountname/public_html/subdomain.This subdomain is created using the control panel.When you give in the url, http://multihostedomain.com, it will actually load the contents from subdomain.domain.com but in URL it will show http://multihostedomain.com
From what I get out of this, if you park or subdomain, either way the second url will show? ...so that the home user has no idea that it's has any relation to the main host's url? The reason I'm trying to figure this out is because on one of my sites I'm only using a fraction of the available space (and bandwidth). I was thinking of moving another small site of mine over to that host and have them share the same account. But will the user ever know? If they hold their mouse over a link will it reveal the 'true' address?
zollet posted this at 18:45 — 16th January 2003.
He has: 1,016 posts
Joined: May 2002
Mike,
A "parked" domain is basically an additional domain that points to a site. I.e. domain.com and domain.net show the same site.
A "multihosted" domain is a domain that points to a subdomain/subfolder of another account which is good when you want to host multiple domains in a single account.
Both options are transparent to the users since both show up like real accounts and I'm sure you've understood by now that what you want is a multihosted domain.
fifeclub posted this at 19:15 — 16th January 2003.
He has: 688 posts
Joined: Feb 2001
Ah, yes. Thank you. If only the tech guys (or gals) could have put it so simply :)I have a parked domain now that access the same exact site. But in the case of what I'm thinking about (a completely different website but sharing the same resources) would be the later choice. Thanks.
zollet posted this at 20:39 — 16th January 2003.
He has: 1,016 posts
Joined: May 2002
Well, I am kind of a tech guy
nuk3 posted this at 07:56 — 17th January 2003.
They have: 238 posts
Joined: May 2002
I guess he would have been covered in the first place if he used Sarvi Hosting
fifeclub posted this at 05:52 — 18th February 2003.
He has: 688 posts
Joined: Feb 2001
This thread's a little old and my question was answered but I now have a real world example so I want to revive the thread. Regarding "parking" only. I've got a redirection service that points to a site's real location. That url is softball.at/charlotte. It used to point to a site that went away but I moved the content to my personal site and redirected the service to the new location. The real location of the site is mikesussman.com/softball. This is obviously just a subfolder of my website, but if you never looked at the url, most people wouldn't know it - except for the fact that all the search engines list the "real urls" and not my redirection service (which is what I promote).
Now my hosting company would rather sell me a new domain (which I may need to do down the road if it gets popular) so I want to ask here first. I want to look into what can be done with parking a new domain. Can it be used to "host" another site on the unused resources of another site?
1. Can I have it parked to a subfolder of the root domain?
2. If so, would visitors or search engines ever know that it's really hosted on this other domain or will the parking "cover up the truth"?
3. If so, do lots of people do this if they've got the spare resources.
P.S. FYI, To keep the "stealth frame" of the redirection service, I used a javascript to prevent showing the url's in the status bar.
P.P.S. I already have another domain parked on my main site, but that points to the root directory so it's not the same situation as what I'm asking about.
zollet posted this at 07:19 — 18th February 2003.
He has: 1,016 posts
Joined: May 2002
1. Yes, you'll need to have a subdomain that points to that subfolder and then park the new domain over the subdomain.
2. It will look like a real site with its own domain name.
3. Yes, a lot of people do this.
GlowHost.com posted this at 03:05 — 24th February 2003.
They have: 27 posts
Joined: Feb 2003
Make sure that if you use a control panel that it will support creation of email addresses and all the other functionality of the main site's control panel.
You'd prolly hate to find out that youd have to contact a server admin everytime you wanted an email address created for the multihosted/subdomain park.
GlowHost.com | Reliable web hosting since 2002.
>> Shared Web Hosting - Host Unlimited Domains
>> Reseller Web Hosting- Managed cPanel Reseller Accounts
>> Managed Dedicated and Managed VPS
Want to join the discussion? Create an account or log in if you already have one. Joining is fast, free and painless! We’ll even whisk you back here when you’ve finished.