Originally Posted by executive_assist
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Hi ladies!
I am getting ready to purchase a second domain and wanted to run it as a sub domain so that I won't incur an extra hosting fee. My question is, is it going to hurt the domain to do it that way.
The other question is that if I do that, do you have any good resources for how to set that up? I've never tried it before.
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Serita, are you sure you don't mean
addon domain? I have a lot of addon domains, but don't do sub domains except for forums or a separate blog. I want my other sites to have their own URL, therefore the addon domains. All I pay for is for registering the new domain name.
Here's a short description of parked, addon, and sub domains:
Sub domain
- Lets say your domain is mysite.com.
- You install a forum and put in in a directory called mysite.com/forum/.
- You can turn the directory board into a sub-domain by adding it as a sub-domain from your Control Panel.
- Now you can access your Message board as either mysite.com/forum OR forum.mysite.com.
- This costs you nothing - no registering of a new domain name or hosting.
Parked domain
- You have two domains mysite.com and mysite2.com.
- mysite.com is the domain of your website and you want to add mysite2.com.
- You want them both to go to the same place. In other words, when someone types either www.mysite.com or www.mysite2.com they will go to the same page(s) on your website.
- In order to have additional parked domains you need to purchase them from a registry or your current host.
Addon domain
- You have two domains mysite.com and mysite2.com.
- You want the two domains to be totally separate and independent websites.
- Your new addon domain will have its own folder in your hosting provider's root directory.
- In order to have addon domains you need to purchase and register them. The cost can run from $5 and up. Mine usually cost me $10 per domain registration through my host.
HTH a bit,
Is it a good idea to run a separate domain as a sub domain?
Happy day!
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