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Domains and Starter Packs

david111 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:48:40 GMT

I bought the £2.99 per month starter pack with which I got one domain for free

Yesterday I bought another domain ... in fact it cost £10 for 2 years ... I was presented with the option of taking a second starter pack with this new domain.

I did not take this option because I assumed that I could manage my new domain with the first starter pack also. Is this correct?

Or do I need to have a separate new starter pack of £2.99 per month with each new domain I buy from BT?

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

spank — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:08:31 GMT

No 1 starter pack is enough. You can add as many domains as you want to this pack.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

dave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:25:36 GMT

Spank,

This is completely incorrect. You can only have 1 domain registered as the primary domain for both of BTs hosting packages.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

david111 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:12:02 GMT

I think it is explained correctly now on my thread ... Persevering with my problem ....

With the £2.99 starter pack you can buy as many domains as you want. But you can only have web hosting on one of them.

If you want to do web hosting on the other domains then for each of these you need to buy from within the account another web hosting package (£5 listed but will actually cost you £2.99)

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

agowans — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:29:41 GMT

Quick link to above stated thread:

http://btb.lithium.com/btb/board/message?board.id=Webhosting&thread.id=2613

Ally

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

spank — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:40:38 GMT

@david111 wrote:
I bought the £2.99 per month starter pack with which I got one domain for free

This creates an Internet Business Pack order with a WM account number.

Yesterday I bought another domain ... in fact it cost £10 for 2 years ... I was presented with the option of taking a second starter pack with this new domain.

When you choose to register a new domain, you must choose a hosting package to associate it with. The starter package or professional package must be selected.

I did not take this option because I assumed that I could manage my new domain with the first starter pack also. Is this correct?

Or do I need to have a separate new starter pack of £2.99 per month with each new domain I buy from BT?

It is perfectly acceptable for you to add as many domains as you want on to the starter pack you already purchased. Just don't do it via the add-services page. You need to log in to the starter packs admin pages by going to http:www.bt.com/business/login and putting the btconnect email address and password you have for the WM account.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

spank — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:49:28 GMT

Dave, the OP he never asked how many primary domains he could have.

You do NOT need to by a starter pack with every domain.

You can associate as many domains as you want to one starter pack.

This was the question right?

Or am I reading it wrong.

Message Edited by spank on 25-08-2009 03:49 PM

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

david111 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:08:46 GMT

I thought I had all this sorted but now am getting confused again. Ally seemed to confirm the correctness of my view on my other recent threads which are on this topic ... and he should know.

My understanding was that you buy a £2.99 starter pack, get a web hosting acccount and a domain name with this account.

Suppose then you want another domain with this account with the aim of managing web space on this new domain. I was suggesting that in order to do this you needed to log into the account, buy the domain, and pay another £2.99 for web hosting for this second domain. If you want a third domain on which to host a website then you need to log into the account buy the domain, and pay another £2.99 for webhosting etc (In fact the packate cost is listed as £5 but BT will reimburse the difference.).

One alternative for three domains with webhosting is to have three different £2.99 accounts each with a different username and password.

However ... spank ... you are suggesting another alternative that I don't full understand that involves splitting the 5Gb. Please could you elaborate on this? What do you mean contact the 'desk'. Are you sure with this solution that there will be three clickable links one for each of the three domains when you go into manage domains?

David

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

david111 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:10:17 GMT

... sorry I meant manage webspace not domains at the end

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

agowans — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:46:06 GMT

A domain(s) can be present on an account with no AWH or IBP.

A customer can have as many IBPs / AWHs on one account as they desire.

It is not necessary to assosciate a domain with a hosting package.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

dave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:47:16 GMT

On an account you can have an unlimited amount of hosting packages (£5 or £15, it doesn't matter) and an unlimited amount of domains.

For each hosting package you can only assign ONE primary domain. Assigning the primary domain is what gives you the 'Manage yourdomain.com' link in your account, and access to all the tools, web builders, etc for that domain.

If you want to manage any if your domains as an independent website, as david111 wants to, you need to have a hosting package to go with it. Without a hosting package, all you can do is forward the domain to an existing site and of course use it for email purposes.

You cannot have 2 independent websites with different domains running on a single web hosting package.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

whoknows — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:48:49 GMT

I have a IBP (£5 - got it way before the current offer, sadly!) and a primary domain associated with this IBP. I then went and purchased three more domains - no issue.

I then set up two more website on the same IBP with 2 of the additional domains! How? Create a subfolder in the main site files/folders with the website name, put all your web files (and index file for that site in the sub folder), then go to manage domains and point your additional domain to the sub folder.

This is not an elegant way of having multiple sites as it doesn't really make best use us of search engines etc...but gives you a second or third site cheaply (I am told you can actually have up to 4 such sub folders and hence sites) - good for testing before you move to buying a seperate IBP or eShop etc.

I did exactly this and now have purchased a seperate eShop package for the shop website which i ran in a subfolder for a couple of years. And you can use the additional domains for emails by creating the appropriate alias and routing...

Hope it makes sense and hasn't muddied the waters further....

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

spank — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:16:14 GMT

Well I'll be....

Apologies, you can have multiple hosting per account. Although Whoknows method is the one I have explained earlier it isn't the best due to the way search engines trawl sites but is a method you can use.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:22:54 GMT

Indeed you can save some money by setting this the way that Whoknows has mentioned, however the second site will not be a completely independent from the primary domain and the primary domain will still show as the "true" address of the site.

Re: Domains and Starter Packs

whoknows — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:01:44 GMT

Actually you can set the address bar to show www.domain.co.uk (or .com), but as you move from page to page the true full address will be shown briefly in the bottom part of the browser as it switches pages.

I have said , this is a good way to test out a site and even run a functioning one until you need to go buy a hosting package and then move the site to the new hosting package...