Newbie Needing Info About Sub-Sites

Hello. I am wanting to build and host a small business website for a friend as a sub-folder under my account site.

I have read someof the KB articles, specifically the "Redirect a SubDomain to a SubDirectory".

My question is this:

1. Is it ok to do this under myaccount

2. If so, do I simply have the customer pay for their URL and I route the incoming traffic to their sub-folder i.e. Or does my customer have to buy a hosting account?

3. Would/could this customer use an email account that I would setup with my domain name? example: Customer1.SouthernOutsourcing.com, Customer2.SouthernOutsourcing.com, etc.

As you can tell I am green when it comes to hosted services.

Thanks for any input / advice.

Jeff Bryant
SouthernOutsourcing.com

 

In ASP and ASP.NET you can do this sort of domain filtering for incoming requests.

Your customers would all need to use the root mail system.
You can however create some mail features for them.
(Several of the components available to us here have SMTP, MAPI and POP)

Will you be doing this with your own code or a Community Starter kit?
ASP or ASP.NET?
Salute,
Mark

 

Thanks for your reply.


The site would be custom ASP.net code.


I am just a bit confused about some fundamental things.


After reading other posts, I still don't know if I have to purchase seperate hosting accounts for each and every site I do in the future?

 

Depending on what you need they may.
I've run communities here on the same server with multiple domains successfully.
Easier to do in classic ASP than ASP.NET however since you run into so many inheritance problems.
For you it seems like the mail system may be the determining factor.
I'd also recommend you run some searches, look for problems associated with multiple ASP.NET communities on the same shared server.
Certain things won't be too much trouble, such as giving multiple customers their own Blog.
You can certainly do that with domains or even sub-domains.