[wplug] domain question

[Jonathan Billings]

On Jul 20, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Zach Uram wrote:
> Ok so my point of confusion is precisely how/where will I be doing
> these changes? In some GUI on Google Apps or with a 3rd party domain
> hoster. Someone said Google Apps provides you with DNS servers (domain
> hosting) so that is what is confusing me because when I went to Google
> Apps FAQ it seemed to indicate otherwise.

You just point your DNS information at Google's servers.  I don't  
believe Google is a DNS registrar.

> Basically right now I have a remote website www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~chaos
> and I would like to get a domain so that web users will go to
> www.zachuram.org (or whatever I choose)  and it will transparently be
> taking them to whatever homepage I setup on www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~chaos
> but they will only see www.zachuram.org in their URL bar. WIll Google
> Apps let me do this or will I also need to sign up with a DNS hoster
> like DynDNS to provide domain resolution? I also wanted to eventually
> host my own webserver from my DSL connection at home so would Google
> Apps also let me do that? I want to do this as cheaply as possible
> while still getting good service. When I eventually use my own
> webserver if it goes down (server crash or my DSL service loss) I
> would like people visiting www.zachuram.org to automatically be sent
> to www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~chaos   Is that possible? Also I noticed some
> DNS hosters offer secondary DNS, is that in case your primary DNS is
> lost (whether you  run them yourself or with a 3rd party hoster) the
> secondary DNS would kick in so your domain would have no loss of DNS
> service? Just curious. Don't think I need that now.


You can use Google APps just for your email/calendar stuff, and just  
point your DNS information at the Computer Club's web server.  How  
much control do you have over the apache configuration on that  
server?  They will have to change it to tell it that your web  
directory (that corresponds to www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~chaos) is www.zachuram.org 
  (or whatever you choose).  Google Apps won't be able to do that.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>