[OT] Opinions about On-Rev

[Bill Marriott]

Right, Marty. And let me point out one other aspect....

When you get your on-Rev account, you'll have a default folder set up for 
your initial user.on-rev.com subdomain. When you create the "add-on" domain 
in the control panel, you'll be able to specify this folder, or a new 
folder, or any existing folder as the "root" of the domain you're 
specifying.

In this way you can keep domains separate, or you can link multiple domains 
to the same folder.

Suppose you have:

superdomain.com
superdomain.net
superdomain.info
superdomain.biz

These would be four "add-on" domains, four registrations with GoDaddy. But 
you can map them all to the "superdomain" folder on your on-rev account, so 
you put all your stuff in one place. Then you could have a domain,

mypersonalsite.org

which maps to the "mysite" folder on your on-Rev account (the folder names 
don't have to match anything in particular) and this would be a completely 
separate collection of content.

So, to address the OP's question, "How do you 'change a sub-domain to an 
AddOn domain?'" The answer is you really don't. The subdomain is like a 
phone number; that doesn't change. You can add as many prefixes (i guess 
they would be called, sub-subdomains) for example

x.y.z.user.on-rev.com

But you cannot change the user.on-rev.com part. You can specify that your 
"add-on" domain(s) point to the same folder that user.on-rev.com does (like 
a phone number that forwards to the same physical telephone as another 
number) -- the default folder we set up for you at account creation. Or, you 
can just keep your default folder empty and create new folders for your 
"add-on domains" as desired.

- Bill



"Marty Knapp" <martyknapp at comcast.net> wrote in 
message news:4A1485AA.1020305 at comcast.net...
> Hey Alex,
>
> You'll need to register a domain name with a registrar - many people here 
> have recommended GoDaddy, which is what I use. Let's say you register 
> "alextweedly.com" Then you edit the Nameserver setting with the registrar 
> so that it points to On-Rev with the info that On-Rev provides, which is 
> probably:
>
> ns1.on-rev.com
> ns2.on-rev.com
>
> Then you can create an "Add-on" domain in your On-Rev control panel with 
> the name you registered. Place your web site files in this new directory. 
> Within a short while everything should sync up and requests for 
> "alextweedly.com" will bring visitors to your On-Rev hosted site. And with 
> On-Rev you can host unlimited sites.
>
> A "freebie" you get with On-Rev is a user space with your account name, 
> like "alextweedly.on-rev.com". You can host a site at this address without 
> further registration.
>
> HTH,
> Marty Knapp
>> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>> I have signed up as troz.on-rev.com.
>>> I own the domain troz.net and plan to re-locate it's hosting, but I
>>> wanted to test it out before changing the DNS entries.
>>> I created a sub-domain "troz.troz.on-rev.com" so I could migrate my
>>> site & test it, before changing it to an AddOn domain and altering the
>>> DNS.
>>>
>> Could you expand slightly on how you do this ?
>>
>> I (think I) unerstand most of it
>> - create a sub-domain
>> - copy files over
>> - test it
>>
>> But how do you "change a sub-domain to an AddOn domain" ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- Alex.