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AKD96 said:I'm currently with Communitech.NET, and all hell has been going on so far this year. They were bought out by Interland and are currently closing down their NOC in KC and moving everything to Interland in Atlanta. My site is now as sloooooow as mud. Word from the grapvine is that Interland is going down, so I'm looking for a new host.
I'm currently FTPing down all of my files and will backup and download my MySQL.
I noticed you have webmail access which is a great plus. I have been using Everyone.net and am not happy with having to go through a 3rd party. Would visitors to my website be able to sign-up for and use e-mail accounts? What are the details on that?
I will probably be looking at the Executive package. I currently use 189.81MB and have used 0.35GB of bandwidth this month, so you won't have to worry about me hogging it.
In addition to the drumlines.org domain, I also have drumlines.com and drumlines.net pointing to my site. These are defined as "Parked Domains", right? And by addon domains, do these mean I can have 2 other URLs that point to a sub-folder on my site?
That's all I have for now. Now sell me on choosing VertexHost!
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You are correct with everything. Parked domains are used for domains that you own to forward someone to another domain. So if someone went to drumlines.net, they would automaticaly forward to drumlines.com. Addon domains, as you said, be a completely different domain or site if you want, and is created as a subfolder within your main account. This domain uses storage/transfer of your main account, but works well if someone needs a small personal site and can't see paying extra to host it.
The webmail interface is designed for accessing POP email accounts via the web when you are away, or if you choose not to use a program. You have two webmail options to choose from.
Horde -
http://www.horde.org/NeoMail -
http://neomail.sourceforge.net/These are preinstalled for you. But, they aren't designed to be a mail solution where you can have anyone create new accounts and such, each account has to be created via the control panel. If you are looking for a system like that, I would suggest taking a look at
http://www.hivemail.com (I think there is even a hack floating around to integrate it with threads) And for a free version of something similar, you may want to check out squirrelmail.
If you have any other questions though just let me know.
