Hi all, I’m relatively new to web creation. I have created 7 simple web sites for friends and family. I use EUKHOST for my web space and always buy the domains through them.
Anyway, a friend has asked me to create something simple for their Physio practise. I have started designing the work but I had not bought the domain as they hadn’t made a final decision on the name.
2 days ago they decided upon the name ! The didn’t tell me but instead the lady s son purchased the relevant domain through Easyspace.
This is obviously going to cause me a problem.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a way around this?
Can I get the domain to point to my web space?
If so, how do I create email addresses?
I have been in touch with EUKHOSt and they say that if I get permission from the registrant then they will transfer the domain over to my account with them but will charge me the same as if I’d just bought it.
A domain may be registered anywhere, and hosted anywhere. I don’t generally use the same registrar as I do hosting as I do domain name service. My points of failure are distributed, and my chances of complete failure are reduced very dramatically. If one of my Web hosts dies, I can have the site on another server and the DNS re-pointed in hours.
You can leave the domain at Easyspace, then set the DNS there to point to EUKHOST.
It is feasible to have the domain redirected to your current hosting
service, without transferring the registration - but it would be much
easier to host the site at Easyspace (which is not expensive) and
upload straight there. Just change the FTP access details in the
Freeway upload dialog box. Presumably, your friend/client will be
paying, anyway.
HTH Colin
On 10 Feb 2010, at 13:05, neil wrote:
… a friend has asked me to create something simple for their
Physio practise… They didn’t tell me but instead the lady’s son
purchased the relevant domain through Easyspace.
I can leave the domain registration with Easyspace.
Upload the web site into my EUKHOST web space
Point the DNS to Eurohost.
This will also allow me to create email account in EUKHOST ?
What I’d do is just treat EUKHOST like your own. Upload to it, use the email control panel there to make email addresses etc. I don’t think there’s any need to fiddle with DNSs. I do this all the time for clients; I log into their host with their username and password, upload their site, and log into their control panel and set up the email addresses/filters they’ve asked for.
Ok. Further investigation has revealed that the ‘son’ paid £12 for 2 years registration but this comes with no hosting.
So I will have to use my EUKHOST web space and presume then that I need to contact the Easyspace people to get them to change the pointing of the DNS to my web space ?
Yes, and that’s really quite trivial usually. Just find out the IP
address of your hosting server and tell Easyspace what it is.
Walter
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:02 AM, neil wrote:
Ok. Further investigation has revealed that the ‘son’ paid £12 for 2
years registration but this comes with no hosting.
So I will have to use my EUKHOST web space and presume then that I
need to contact the Easyspace people to get them to change the
pointing of the DNS to my web space ?
So I will have to use my EUKHOST web space and presume then that I need to contact the Easyspace people to get them to change the pointing of the DNS to my web space ?
You (or he) should be able to log into the Easyspace account and
change the domain nameservers yourself. Once that’s done (allowing up
to 48 hours for it to take effect) you’ll manage everything through
your Eukhost account. And, as Walter says, there are advantages to
keeping the domain name and web site hosting separate.
However, alternatively, you could set just the web address to forward
from Easyspace to the site you’ve created at Eukhost, leaving the
email management for your client to sort out himself through Easyspace
(e.g. he could set it to forward to a Gmail account). It just depends
how much you want to be responsible for.
Easyspace used to be brilliant but since they were taken over a few years ago I find them to be way too expensive now, and particularly arrogant if you need help, also if you want to move a uk domain out they will charge you £15, forwarding email cost extra as does web forwarding etc.
I have now moved all my domains away from them, they are so hopeless they still have accounts listed on the remaining control panel that I moved 5 years ago !
way the best thing to do is get the login details for your friends account, set up the web hosting with your current people and change the Nameservers to them in the easyspace control panel, which is very badly designed btw.
then you will have full control of the email, webspace, etc.
do yourself a favour and keep easyspace out of the loop