web hosting

[visagephoto]

My website is hosted by 1&1 and is currently only using 19mb of an available 600mb webspace.

I would like to build a new (unrelated) website registered under a different domain name, and wondered if both websites could be hosted on the same 600mb webspace while having totally different url's, i.e.
www.visage-photography.co.uk
and
www.photo?frames.co.uk

Or would I have to contract to another 600mb hosting package

[Rob Holmes]

Have a look in your hosting package and see if they let you have more than 1 domain pointing into the webspace.

If you need multiple domains under 1 login there are a few hosts on the forum, vshosting, twd hosting and myself to name a few - I think at least one of the others as well as us can provide clients with multiple domains under 1 login.

Rob

[visagephoto]

Have a look in your hosting package and see if they let you have more than 1 domain pointing into the webspace.

It mentions sub-domains in my hosting package, but I'm not sure if that simply means co.uk, com, etc pointing to the same website

[Rob Holmes]

no sub domains are something different they are e.g. accounts.yourdomain.com

Try giving them a call to ask - they are 24/7

Rob

[Srivvy]

1and1 say they are 24/7, but they do not seem to answer the phones outside office hours.

You can add additional domains to your hosting packages with them.

Watch you dont to do much interlinking between sites hosted in the same space without getting links coming in from sites elsewhere. Search engines can see that they are at the same IP address.

[Rob Holmes]

1and1 say they are 24/7, but they do not seem to answer the phones outside office hours.

I believe they are 24/7 - out of UK hours transfer to the US and Phillipines - maybe they were busy.

Watch you dont to do much interlinking between sites hosted in the same space without getting links coming in from sites elsewhere. Search engines can see that they are at the same IP address.

True - but in relation to the thread - most hosts (including us) host sites on a shared IP address unless someone asks for a dedicated IP. The only real way to ensure optimum IP allocation is to have totally different classes of IP address - i.e. different servers on different networks - this is where one and one will not really be able to cater for people.

Rob

[coxadmin]

I am with 1and1 and have 3 different domain names under one hosting package.

[crus]

Hi,

I have used in the past, I think its domain associations.

If youre not using them yet, I highly recommend avoiding, there is no reason why a company should need a domain transfered to its control to host your site. This has caused huge problems previously, if this is still their practice I would avaoid like the plague. In addition their support is avergae at best.

D

[visagephoto]

I managed to get through to 1&1 out of hours, the advice I got was a little vague ( foreign helpdesk) But I worked it out between their Q&A page and the advice I recieved here.

I'm still in the process of creating the new site, http://www.tailsandveils.co.uk which will sell wedding & party favours ( I hope :)).

Any advice on the design layout would be most welcome, for instance, I like the alternating two colour text links, but if I change the site to css the text loses it's formatting, therefore is css compatibillity really more important than design.

I would also like to add a shopping cart facility when it's complete, again without losing the site design, is this possible/easy to do using third party products, and without costing a fortune.

[Richard Conyard]

Going off at a tangent, sorry...

I think hosting packages sold by the amount of space you get are a bit of a misnomer. I mean, as if the hosting company really cares how much space you take up more often than not.

Most sites come in at less than 10MB and when you can buy a 40,000 MB (yeah I know I simplified this to base 10), hard disc for about £40 it's a bit of a no brainer.

What is more difficult is traffic and processor usage. I guess these are just harder concepts to sell and therefore get pushed aside.

Sorry my random thought for the day.