What are hosting pointers?

[FPForum]

Hello everyone. I have been looking at some different web hosting companies and I noticed in the plan for one of them they offer:

Host 1 Domain Name + 15 Pointers

I am curious what they mean by 15 pointers? Thanks

 

[PolurNET]

Parked domains, maybe?

 

[Joey]

Parked domains, maybe?

I'd agree with PolurNet.... sounds like parked domains to me. Another common term would be aliases.

 

[FPForum]

excellent thanks guys!

 

[weblord]

:imho: very limited. it means 1 add-on domain + 15 parked domains

 

[MutoGen]

Which host have such phrase?

 

[squatter]

I am curious what they mean by 15 pointers? Thanks

Well, I've read this thread and then another one http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11582, and got completely confused. So, we have multidomains, domain pointers and sub domains, what is what?
Plz, explain.

 

[weblord]

simply mean addon- domains+parked+subdomains

Well, I've read this thread and then another one http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=11582, and got completely confused. So, we have multidomains, domain pointers and sub domains, what is what?
Plz, explain.

 

[benedikt]

I think pointers mean parked domains. Just different companies name it in different ways.

 

[squatter]

Thanks, weblord and benedikt, now
parked domains=pointers, subdomain-domain of the third level secondmydomain.com and folder- mydomain.com/third. Does it sound O'K?

 

[weblord]

sounds like you're near, but
third.mydomain.com
can also be equal to mydomain.com/third
if you have the habit of adding subdomains on cpanel instead of adding it via ftp

 

[garpiya]

sounds like you're near, but
third.mydomain.com
can also be equal to mydomain.com/third
if you have the habit of adding subdomains on cpanel instead of adding it via ftp

I've added domains only via ftp. Is it difficult to add them via cpanel? I just wonder because I've never done it before?

 

[3011]

It mean DNS,
For example
webmail.yoursite.com--->point to your site's mailer
mail.yoursite.com--->point to your site's mailer
www.yoursite.com-->point to yoursite.com
......

sounds like you're near, but
third.mydomain.com
can also be equal to mydomain.com/third
if you have the habit of adding subdomains on cpanel instead of adding it via ftp

you can setup subdomain for this work

I've added domains only via ftp. Is it difficult to add them via cpanel? I just wonder because I've never done it before?

You need create a sub domain (use cpanel).
ex: forum.yoursite.com, cpanel will create sub folder with name is "forum". After that, you can upload via ftp