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GordonH
February 14th, 2001, 05:03
Hello
I run their biggest cobranded community and decided not to go for any of their paid options.
The servers are just too slow. Its the processing of all the .ihtml and sql that bogs it down.
Its very fast when they turn all that off.

In order to offer a paid option with no ads on my own servers (not theirs) I moved the DNS off their name servers onto my own.
Unfortunately the non "www" version of the domain still doesn't work because its not unique IP addressing and they would need to add it to their system.

I thought about pointing it straight to an account on my servers and doing a redirect but unfortunately the way the DNS is set up all the host names are CNAME'd to domain.com so there appears to be no way roud it other than paying.

Gordon
FluxFX
February 14th, 2001, 05:40
yeah, i got that too, i think that is bull----, IMO
keith
February 14th, 2001, 06:55
Dear webmasters!

If you host your domain name like http://www.yourdomain.com (net., org, national
domains) with Excelland.Com, you can have your community access under the
short name (e.g. domain.com, without \"www\" prefix for example) and under
regular name.
To have this feature you need to pay one-time feature activation fee - $10
at http://shop.excelland.com. There is no monthly charge for this service.

ummm... a "feature activation fee"? so they're gonna charge users $10 for a "feature" that shoulda been there from the git-go. anyone else find this just plain stupid?

plus, when you visit shop.excelland.com, you get a "bad request" error.
Nick
February 14th, 2001, 08:25
Originally posted by keith
anyone else find this just plain stupid?

... I do.
DemonKnight
February 14th, 2001, 10:14
I didnt even pay for my URLs and I've got that feature. (I got my URLS back when Domainzero was free, and evidently they still are for existing members cause I aint heard nothing from them in months and all my URLs and subdomains still work.)
Mandrake
February 14th, 2001, 11:36
Excelland has gotten very money-hungry lately... They're adding quite a bit of new features, but they want money for everything. The only free one was SSI support... I guess they had to throw everyone a bone sooner or later. I'm wondering if they're going broke.
Coolin
February 14th, 2001, 11:36
Well, domainhosting does cost money... Excelland charging a little fee isn't that bad is it?
Coolin
February 14th, 2001, 22:34
Ack, ignore that post I just had. The time bug on the server made me only read a part of the thread in which I misunderstood the meaning of the thread. And yes, I do think that is truly stupid to Excelland to do. It's not a good way to treat their customers.