Forum Web Hosting For Valuable Domain

[lordbyroniv]

I am looking to start a forum on a pretty expensive domain. I do NOT feel comfortable transferring this domain to a company I am not familiar with in case the hosting company turns into a fly by nite aka Register fly

Network solutions offers hosting for forums but they are really expensive

Any other ideas?

Does Moniker offer shared and dedicated hosting for forums?

[PrezKennedy]

You can keep your domain with whatever registrar you're signed up with right now. You don't need to transfer a domain in order to host a website. Just redirect the DNS to the servers your webhost allocates to you.

[Ehsan]

Originally Posted by PrezKennedy

You can keep your domain with whatever registrar you're signed up with right now. You don't need to transfer a domain in order to host a website. Just redirect the DNS to the servers your webhost allocates to you.

Yes as Prez said all you have to do is change the name servers of your domain to the webhost's name servers and the webhost will guide you through the other steps thats all you have to do but do make sure that your webhost is reputable and does retain daily or weekly backups etc

[lordbyroniv]

thanks guys

Do you know whether separating the hosting of the forum sub domain from the main website effects SERP

Anybody have any insight?

How does Google view two different IP addresses? Would I be better ftping the files into 1 Registrar?

Also, anybody have any experience hosting a forum with netSol?

thanks

[tristanperry]

Originally Posted by lordbyroniv

Do you know whether separating the hosting of the forum sub domain from the main website effects SERP

This wouldn't effect SERP at all.

Originally Posted by lordbyroniv

How does Google view two different IP addresses? Would I be better ftping the files into 1 Registrar?

Two different IP address.. on what?

Originally Posted by lordbyroniv

Also, anybody have any experience hosting a forum with netSol?

I haven't, although it's usually best to keep your domain name and your web hosting separate.

Plus, IMHO, it's best to go with a dedicated website host, not a domain registrar that offers website hosting.

[assuredhost]

hi,
if you are eying for setup a large forum, it is good to have a dedicated server instead of a shared ones . and with no offense , please donot go for shared hosting services of domain registrars. they have less features with strict account policies .

thanks

[ksinclair]

I use godaddy hosting since i have most of my domains there. It seemed cumbersome at first but has a suprisingly good response time - I did not expect this. I have other hosting, one is 8X more expensive, and it has a slower response time. Way more features but if you are not using the features, so what. But for $6.99/mo with unlimited domains, its not bad.

Godaddy shared hosting is limited in some of the development environments so my programmer had to struggle to get that going. if you go with more expensive godaddy hosting you can set your own paramaters much more flexibly, but there are other hosting that might be better than godaddy if you dont want shared hosting.

You should use vBulletin for the forum. Its very good. There are dnf guys who can set it up for you for a modest fee.

Kevin