Multiple Domains on a single account

Hello,

Is it possible to run multiple domains under one account? A single database is fine, it's just each domain hosts a different...thing.

At my current host when I login via FTP I see four folders, each has a website setup under it, that is what I want to accomplish here, if possible.

Thanks,

Guest

 

Hi,
Yes indeed. You can add domains from your Control Panel.
(There is a small fee for domain pointers.)
On the IIS7 servers here v2 of the URL rewrite is already available.
You can also use page code methods, the KB section has sample code for that.
All the best,
Mark

 

Another question about two domains

I have little experience with ASP and Windows hosting and I'd like to have more clear picture about hosting more than 1 domain on discountasp.

1. Let's say I have an account registered with discountasp for domain main.com and I also want to host a website for domain secondary.com within the same account.

So, let's assume I install the following web sites:
a) for www.main.com in folder /html/main
b) for www.secondary.com in folder /html/secondary

I read the KB here and it says: "When the requests are redirected using an ASP file, the URL in browser for redirected domains will show the correct domain name and the directory name where the request is being redirected."

I don't understand what the word "correct" means in this context. If someone types in the browser the url http://www.secondary.com, does it mean that the address in the browser window will change to the "correct" one http://www.main.com when he gets the page ??

2. I have read in another thread that in case of 2 domains, it is possible to setup an e-mail redirection (root pointer?) so that the main domain receives all e-mails for the secondary domain, but it is impossible to send e-mail from the secondary domain.

This is very new to me, coming from my php/apache hosting and I don't understand how to deal with it (apart from buying a new account for each domain). Is there any possible setup to have e-mails for these 2 domains work as expected?

3. This is a summary question: is discountasp (and maybe other Windows/IIS hosting) designed primarily to serve a single domain for a single account? I ask this because in my Apache based hosting there are unlimited possibilities for e-mail, subdomains, domains etc. out of the box for one account, and here it looks like one account is designed to serve just one domain.