[sclug] domain / www hosting

[Ed Davies]

Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:37:42PM +0000, Darren Davison wrote:
>> I want to get a few megs of free space for my domain so I can host it under
>> www.davisononline.org  There are plenty of companies offering small amounts
>> of space for free, but all of them seem to insist on me changing the DNS
>> servers for my domain to them.
> 
> Insist how?  Do they actually check or are they just trying to reduce
> support issues?
> 
> Can you not just keep doing your own DNS and tell them that you have
> indeed made the change?
> 
> You can query the servers they tell you to use directly for
> www.yourdomainname and then use that IP/CNAME as the record in the zone
> you host yourself.

Won't the IP address of the free web space be shared with other
virtual hosts on the same server?  If you want to point another
domain name at that address don't you also need to get the web
provider to deal with the HTTP Host: header with your domain
name in it or can you use CNAME records to get round this?

Ed Davies.