This document covers the following
topics:
An instant domain alias is an additional
web address that gives access to your website when
you don't have a real domain name or when your real
domain name is temporarily unavailable. Instant
domain aliases are generated randomly based on your
provider's domain name and can't be changed. To
enable or disable access to your website by instant
domain alias:
- Click the Web Options icon to go to
your web options page.
- Select the domain if you have more than one.
- Click Edit next to Web Service.
- At the bottom of the Web Service page
that appears, enable or disable Instant access
domain alias.
Creating
Subdomains
A subdomain is a lower level domain.
It is added on the left of the domain name, e.g.
subdomain.example.com. You can create as
many subdomains as allowed by the plan. Domains
and subdomains have equal functional capabilities,
including web site management, e-mail service,
FTP, dedicated IPs, etc., but subdomains do not
have their own DNS zones and usually cost less.
To create a subdomain, go through
the following steps:
- Click the Domains icon to go to
your domain settings page. Select the domain
if you have more than one.
- Click Add in the Sub Domains
field. You will be asked to enter the
subdomain name:
- Enter the new subdomain. It will be displayed
in the Subdomain field of the Domain
Settings page.
Shared
and Dedicated IP Hosting
This is also called Virtual Hosting
(Shared IP) and IP Based Hosting (Dedicated IP).
- Shared IP hosting - one IP address is assigned
to several domains and access to a domain
is available only by its domain name;
- Dedicated IP hosting - one IP address is
assigned to one domain. To access a domain
you can use either its IP address or its domain
name.
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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
Shared IP |
- can be used for virtually unlimited
number of virtual hosts;
- easy to configure and use;
- requires no additional hardware of
software;
- can be used for free.
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- does not support Virtual FTP;
- does not support SSL protection.
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Dedicated IP |
- supports Virtual FTP
- supports SSL
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Switching from Dedicated IP to Shared
IP will delete your virtual FTP and SSL services.
To change the type of IP, do the
following:
- Click the Domains icon to go to your
domain settings page. Select the domain if
you have more than one.
- Click the Change to Shared IP link
in the IP Address field.
- If prompted, confirm the change by clicking
"Yes, I agree with the above".
IMPORTANT: After you switch
between shared and dedicated IPs, it will take
several hours before the domain becomes available
at the new IP address.
You can use an IP-only server. To
create it, choose "no domain" option during
signup. Following the signup, you should change
type of IP to Dedicated.
Domain
Aliasing
Domain aliasing, or domain stacking,
is creating additional domain names that would
point to the IP of a different domain. For example,
if your domain name is example.com, you
can register another domain name, e.g. example.net
and have it point to the location of example.com.
This means, every Internet user who goes to example.net
will land in example.com.
A domain alias may have:
- its own DNS zone;
- custom DNS records;
- separate mail service.
To create a new domain alias, do
the following:
- Register the alias, exactly as you register
domain names.
- Click the Domains icon to go to your
domain settings page. Select the domain if
you have more than one.
- Click the Add icon in the Domain
Aliases field at the bottom of the page.
- Confirm by clicking "Yes, I agree with the
additional charges".
- Enter the domain alias. This must be a fully
qualified domain name, e.g. example.com:
- leave the Configure DNS box unchecked
if the domain alias is registered on a different
DNS server. In this case, DNS for this domain
alias will not be maintained and mail service
will be inaccessible for this domain alias.
Server
Aliasing
Server aliases are additional names
for your virtual host. Unlike domain aliases,
they are not added to your DNS zone, and are registered
only with apache. For instance, if your virtual
host name is example.com and you also would
like it to be available at www.example.com,
you should add www server alias to the
example.com domain.
To add a server alias, do the following:
- Click the Web Options icon to go
to your web options page. Select the domain
if you have more than one.
- Scroll down to the Server alias field
and click the Add icon.
- Enter server alias. It will be added to
the list of server aliases for this virtual
host name.
