tzs

At work, I need to fairly quickly set up some forums where I can get feedback from customers and run polls. I've got my personal domain hosted at Surpass, so know that Surpass would be perfect for this, so am thinking of making the company buy a hosting package here, just for that one task.

Let's say at work we are company.com. Would it work to just have forums.company.com hosted at Surpass, and then we set up our name servers to point forums.company.com to the IP address of whatever Surpass server we end up on? We'd keep on handling all the name serving for company.com, basically just making an address record sending forums.company.com to the Surpass machine.

If there is no problem with this, do I just go through the ordinary sign up procedure, but specify forums.company.com instead of company.com for the domain, wait for the email with the service IP address, and then set up our company name servers appropriately and ignore the Surpass name servers? Or will special handling need to be done because its not a second level domain that I want to use at Surpass?

patrickb

I personally think that there would be no problem in doing what you want to do. A nameserver is a nameserver, doesn't matter where it is located, as long as it has the appropiate records it should work.

As for what to register with? Well, not sure if you can register with forums.company.com. You could probably just use the company.com, because if your registrar is pointing to your company's nameservers, it wouldn't matter what the dns entries are in surpass's servers.

I may be wrong, but maybe an admin can chime in here and verify this...

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Patrick

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snide

AFAIK,

in order for you to have a 'sub' domain, your main domain must reside on the same server. 'forums.company.com' exists logically because 'company.com' exists. forums.company.com resolves to a directory at company.com.

You could mirror the content some sort of way. Perhaps you could use a RSS feed or something like that.

You cannot have multiple ip addresses resolving to "different" domains for the same 'company.com' even though 'forums.company.com' is "different".

My explanation confuses me.

I'm sure to learn something with this topic.

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snide

Please don't use my post a gospel. I'm getting a lesson as I type this.

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patrickb

Oh, and one more thing, I am not sure if the forums will work. If they require a base domain name to work off of, it could be possible that there may be conflicts with getting the forums to work, but then again, I know nothing about the forums...

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Patrick

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tzs

OK, looking around more, it looks like this should work, unless the sign-up scripts can't handle anything other than a second-level name. When you sign up for foo.com, Surpass' scripts set up both www.foo.com AND foo.com as virtual hosts on the web server. So, as long as the sign-up thingy doesn't barf on forum.company.com, it should work.

Just speculation, of course, until someone tries it.

Kayla

Where did you come up with foo.com.... that's what I use in examples!







Foo.

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Kayla

:bounce:

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snide

Pleez don't tell me that you have registered "foo.com", teq?

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