Hi,
Just got DA installed last night. Before I go too far down this road, I would like input from others.
My primary domain - colony.net is just that, my primary domain for many things. I run my own seperate mail server which will continue and will not use exim for email for this domain.
I followed the instructions to setup my main domain name in DA - colony.net and it created the DNS records for it. I realize I can basically ignore those as I have other DNS servers already - but will create the additional name server records for the hosted domains on this box.
Per a suggestion from someone else, I want to create a reseller under this domain. From the email exchange I got from support, I understand I don't have to have a reseller account for this purpose, but I think it is probably best.
The downside being that the reseller domain is the same as my main domain name - which of course can't be entered in 2 places.
But what do you folks that have been using DA and may have encountered this think?
Another thing, I host a couple of websites for my cousin. One has email on my main mail server which I think will stay there, the other domain currently has no email, but would like to give her email on the DA server.
I guess I could move the mail for domain 1 to the DA site - that would make things cleaner for me on my other mail server - as well as making it easier to deal wiwth in regards to DNS.
Her main domain is fortino.net, I also have fortino.info which currently points to the same place. I am not sure how to do this in DA. Any hints?
Since she would have this main domain, with another one as an overlay and a second seperate active site, would you create a special user package for her or just make her a reseller? (she isn't very technical so I want to make it as easy as possible for her and me).
I have been looking over the manual, but some of these things are not something the manual can really address, it is more a matter of what has been most practical for others.
I also face a deadline to get certain sites moved from the existing server by Sept 7th, so I am hoping I can jumpstart some of this based on others experience right now, then get up to speed when I have more time to read the docs more completely.
Thanks
Dale
Just got DA installed last night. Before I go too far down this road, I would like input from others.
My primary domain - colony.net is just that, my primary domain for many things. I run my own seperate mail server which will continue and will not use exim for email for this domain.
I followed the instructions to setup my main domain name in DA - colony.net and it created the DNS records for it. I realize I can basically ignore those as I have other DNS servers already - but will create the additional name server records for the hosted domains on this box.
Per a suggestion from someone else, I want to create a reseller under this domain. From the email exchange I got from support, I understand I don't have to have a reseller account for this purpose, but I think it is probably best.
The downside being that the reseller domain is the same as my main domain name - which of course can't be entered in 2 places.
But what do you folks that have been using DA and may have encountered this think?
Another thing, I host a couple of websites for my cousin. One has email on my main mail server which I think will stay there, the other domain currently has no email, but would like to give her email on the DA server.
I guess I could move the mail for domain 1 to the DA site - that would make things cleaner for me on my other mail server - as well as making it easier to deal wiwth in regards to DNS.
Her main domain is fortino.net, I also have fortino.info which currently points to the same place. I am not sure how to do this in DA. Any hints?
Since she would have this main domain, with another one as an overlay and a second seperate active site, would you create a special user package for her or just make her a reseller? (she isn't very technical so I want to make it as easy as possible for her and me).
I have been looking over the manual, but some of these things are not something the manual can really address, it is more a matter of what has been most practical for others.
I also face a deadline to get certain sites moved from the existing server by Sept 7th, so I am hoping I can jumpstart some of this based on others experience right now, then get up to speed when I have more time to read the docs more completely.
Thanks
Dale
