WebHostingHub – Hosting a Website Questions

Published September 14, 2011 | By Guest

Q: I wanted to purchase a subdomain over at http://www.webhostinghub.com/. Since it’s been awhile since I’ve had a page up (When Geocities had number addresses and their size limits) I wanted to know if anyone could answer the following for me.

1. Lets say I get a domain (nintendo.com for example) and someone else I know also wants me to host their page on my domain. Would I have to give them my login and pass, or would I be able to make for them a subdomain with their own login and pass?

2. For most of these blogs and other pages I see up (i.e. sankakucomplex.com) which have “comments” section on every post and a bulletin board, is that something that’s ususally provided by the host, or would I have to find my own host on that as well?

3. Finally I wanted to know with hosting pages, a majority of the time people can find out personal info on the person who owns the domain from something like whois or whatever the name of the website is. I wanted to know is if I do buy a domain page, is there anyway in which I could have this type of information blocked, or would it all become public regardless?

A: You don’t buy a sub-domain, you buy a domain name. Instead of accepting the free domain name with any web hosting purchase, I suggest getting a domain name by itself so you have total control over it and its settings. I get all my domain names from NameCheap. They give you free privacy protection for the 1st year. It’s only $2.88 per year after that for renewals. It’s called Whois Guard. Just enable it after you buy your domain name. So yes, you can block your information and no one will know who owns the domain name.

However, if you want to keep your costs low, WebHostingHub does give you a free domain name with the purchase of any hosting plan.

Those blog comments you see are part of the blogging theme. WordPress already comes with the commenting system built right into the software. You’ll be happy to know that the WebHostingHub servers are optimized for WordPress. Just last week I transferred a WordPress blog from a slow hosting company to the Hub. I was very pleased with the results. You can see the WordPress transfer results here.

It’s not a good idea to let others host their sites on you account. They can do things that violate your accounts terms and you can get your account suspended because of their activities. But yes, when you create a sub-domain, it gets treated just like its own domain, in that it has its own cPanel account with username and password.

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