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.