sub domain problem

This isn't a sub domain at all they are simply setting the sub domain name you are giving them up as a domain alias.

How a sub domain should work:-

Example sub domain name: forum.webwiz.net

You would setup forum.webwiz.net as a web site in IIS, and point it to a folder on the server (this could be a folder inside a present web site).
Then when someone types in forum.webwiz.net IIS grabs the pages from the correct location on the server.

Many web hosts don't like sub domains as they have their own application and function as another web site and so use as many resources as a full blown web site.

What your host is doing is simply setting up forum.webwiz.net as an aliases to your main site which means IIS simply routes any requests to forum.webwiz.net to your present site. They have then given you a coding hack that gets the web site header and redirects to a part of your present site, giving an impression of a sub domain without it actually being a sub domain.

This is a trick used by cheap web hosts, and if they are advertising this as sub domains you should demand that they set you up a sub domain, not a domain alias, as this is a very low and underhand trick.

In the web hosting game it is often as the saying goes, 'you get what you pay for' cheap web hosts may look attractive, but you often don't get what it says on the tin.


Edited by -boRg- - 25 July 2007 at 11:10am