please clarify "virtual hosting"

Yeah once they have the DNS down (which they already have to do in order for it to be able to point to your web page) Its not that big of a deal to edit the mx hosting record and take care of the mail. But like George said if they still are updating mx records by hand(no scripts) then its probably just a pain in their butt and not wanting to do it.

P-K

-----Original Message-----
From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 08:01:00 -0700
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: please clarify "virtual hosting"


> Not much, really, IF you use the right software.
>
> IMHO, what you are asking is outside of their cookie-cutter mentality.
> Yes, it is easy, but will they do it? We did this all the time at my
> last job (a web hosting company). IF they are set up to do it, all
> they have to do is run a script (less than one minute including login,
> and that's for a slow typist).
>
> It all comes down to money and stats. What you are asking is outside
> of the 95% of requests that they are set up to handle. It is easier
> to say no than to spend a couple hours setting it up. If they pay
> their SysAdmin $50/hr (salary + benefits) and it takes him/her two
> hours, they are out $100. How long will it take them to recover $100
> from your account? Ten months? It's not worth it to them because
> that's how long it will take them to recover their investment,
> meanwhile, they've lost out on the revenue they would have collected.
> They would rather say no, or even let you go than to embark on a
> venture that sets them back ten months in revenue.
>
> If enough people ask for it, which puts the request into the 95%
> category, they'll set it up, or lose business to those who will set
> it up.
>
> At my last job, that one minute (one time) script brought in $10/month.
> I had the account set up script automated, and that brought in anywhere
> from $50-$300, depending on the account. One minute of my time made
> the company $50-300. Pretty cool.
>
> George
>
> "David P. Schwartz" wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering what is the relationship between virtual hosting of a web site domain vs. a
> > mailbox domain
> >
> > I have had an account on impulsedata.com, which is an ISP in town here. They host a few
> > domains of mine, all of which are mapped to the same place (one web site, lots of
> > aliases). All of the email gets mapped to my main userid at impulsedata.com.
> >
> > I've played a bit with a non-dedicated system hosted on a Cobalt RaQ3 and RaQ4. I can
> > route a domain by changing the DNS entries at DirectNIC or InterNIC, and the host needs to
> > know what the domain name is so they can set things up there. This works for single
> > domains. Neither host would support aliases of either web or email domains.
> >
> > Some hosts advertise that they'll allow virtual hosting of multiple domains on one site
> > (like what I'm doing at ImpulseData.com right now), but they they say they won't allow
> > multiple email domains. IOW, I can set up a main virtual host as abc.com, then aliases of
> > abc.net, def.com, and def.net, but they won't allow email to the latter three to be
> > delivered.
> >
> > I know that you can flip things around from Apache's conf's, like fred.abc.com vs.
> > www.abc.com/~fred. But how are these kinds of things handled for email? I get the
> > impression email routing is handled differently, although the domain naming seems like it
> > ought to be subordinate to the web routing.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -David
> >
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