Support unlimited subdomains...

[qcp860]

One feature I would like in BS2 is the ability to support "normal" cpanel subdomains -- i.e. what most hosting accounts sell as unlimited subdomains.

Yes, I realize these need to be set up manually, but it would widen the amount of hosts that BS2 could be run on and there is a cpanel api that can be used to script their creation.

[Mark]

Most of those hosts won't allow the pressure bS2 puts on their server will they?

[qcp860]

the biggest issue is not support manually created subdomains since a lot of hosts won't let you do that. There are ways around the load that BS2 puts on a site during setup. There is no way around the need for wildcard subdomains if you want to use keyword based subdomains...

[Omar]

Well... i don't think that is an issue.

TBS does support manual created subdomains.

If you do not want to use wildcards, but you want to use manual created subdomains, you only have to install TBS in that subdomain just as you would do it in the root.

However, because u are using a cpanel created subdomain, and not widlcards, your blogs will be created with folder addressing.

So your blogs will be like:

sub.domain.com/folder/blogname1
sub.domain.com/folder/blogname2
sub.domain.com/folder/blogname3

etc...

[realprofits]

Omar,

would that approach use one license or multiple?

[David]

It's one license per domain. That is how I set mine up. I'll use 50-100 subdomains on each domain.

Most of those hosts won't allow the pressure bS2 puts on their server will they?

It depends on what you do, how often you ping. I've got over 2,000 blogs posting and pinging once a day on my slhost vps, and I'm not taxing it much at all. I spread the crons out over a 24 hour day. Obviously I'm using this different than some. I've also got a ton of other stuff over there. If you would like more specifics on my server metrics, PM me.

David

[qcp860]

Well... i don't think that is an issue.

TBS does support manual created subdomains.

If you do not want to use wildcards, but you want to use manual created subdomains, you only have to install TBS in that subdomain just as you would do it in the root.

However, because u are using a cpanel created subdomain, and not widlcards, your blogs will be created with folder addressing.

So your blogs will be like:

sub.domain.com/folder/blogname1
sub.domain.com/folder/blogname2
sub.domain.com/folder/blogname3

etc...

I appreciate the response, but the whole idea here is to not use folder names. From BS2's viewpoint apart from the DNS editing, is the support for subdomains just reliant on htaccess rewrite conditions/rules? If so I guess I could get someone to hack htaccess to support a defined set of subdomains.