Hosting two domains under one account

[cmsesan1]

I am considering hosting 2 Web sites here but need to ask some questions first.

I currently have a domain name registered with fasthosts, and have changed the nameservers there to point to softsyshosting where I have 2 Web sites as follows:

sansburycc.com - main Web site
hbs.sansburycc.com - demo Web application

I guess that users are directed to the correct Web site based on hostheaders, because no further coding was required. Can I create these 2 Web sites on your shared hosting, change the nameservers at fasthosts and expect things to work without me writing any code? Another hoster required me to write code to point traffic to each subdomain.

My demo application (ASP.NET 3.5) requires full trust, and 'Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008'. Are those features available?

Thanks very much for any help.


Ed Sansbury

[Ryan]

Hi Ed,

Welcome to the forums.

You can indeed host the two websites on one of our hosting plans. In order to do so you will need to get the data of the two sites migrated across and then change the nameservers at fasthosts. Nameservers information will be provided to you once your new account is setup.

Full trust mode feature is available on our Windows hosting servers. 'Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2008' is not a server side component, it is a client side component and you will need to install it on your local machine.

Please feel free to post if you have any more questions.

[cmsesan1]

The ReportViewer must be installed on the server to enable viewing Microsoft reports. discountasp had this on their servers, and softsyshosting installed it when I requested it. I cannot post a download link to see what is required, but if you search google for 'Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable' you will see what I am talking about. I can understand the confusion because I guess that a control is downloaded by the client to print the reports. I need to confirm that this can be installed on your shared hosting server though, as without it my demo application is useless.

Would traffic be directed automatically to the 2 sites once the nameservers at fasthosts were changed to yours? If not, what would be required to do so (how to get url rewriting working)? I know that I can enter hostheaders in IIS to do this on my own server, and that a scope and A records have to be added to my DNS server. Is this done automatically on your shared hosting? I guess I have been spoilt with my currect hoster where I just set up Web sites in their control panel, ftp them into the correct directories and it just works. The trouble is that they are in Denver, so everything slows down depending on the time of day.

Thanks


Ed

[munrobasher]

I've just been through the same discussion about ReportViewer with the sales rep who was very pleasant but informed me this component cannot be installed on their shared host servers.

It's a shame because otherwise I was sold and about to sign up but like you, it's a showstopper.

The reason given wasn't what I expected though - I thought it was "because it's just not part of our standard build" but the reason given was performance issues which I'd not thought about before and I can understand. Users can generate a 1,000 page report off my web app and that really hammers the CPU of my dev server.

So I can kind of understand the response but it's still a shame. I could easily write a webapp myself that caused the same kind of load on a web server...

Cheers, Rob.

[Rock]

I've just been through the same discussion about ReportViewer with the sales rep who was very pleasant but informed me this component cannot be installed on their shared host servers.

It's a shame because otherwise I was sold and about to sign up but like you, it's a showstopper.

The reason given wasn't what I expected though - I thought it was "because it's just not part of our standard build" but the reason given was performance issues which I'd not thought about before and I can understand. Users can generate a 1,000 page report off my web app and that really hammers the CPU of my dev server.

So I can kind of understand the response but it's still a shame. I could easily write a webapp myself that caused the same kind of load on a web server...

Cheers, Rob.

Hi Rob,

to Eukhost community forums

We did experience our shared hosting servers being overloaded in the past due to this ReportViewer component being installed.. for which we then had to disable it..

Also, we do monitor our servers regularly & if any account is found to be overloading it or using too much of it's resources alone, we take appropriate actions against it, which include Notification/Warning, Suspension, Termination, etc..

Please let us know if you have any more questions/doubts, we'd be happy to address.. Have a nice one

[cmsesan1]

The ReportViewer is installed on the Windows shared hosting server and my Web application uses it.

The argument about ReportViewer overloading the server sounds silly to me. The reason being that I could create a similar 1000 page report with a GridView control (used badly) and that would surely overload the servers in a similar way.