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I'm trying to figure out if DynDNS offers a service that can do what I have in mind. Let's say I have a web app that acts like a mini-CMS, where users can signup for an account, and then create really basic html/template pages under their account, stored at say, http://useraccount.mycoolapp.com. I'd like to then be able have users point their own domain name to their account pages on my app, where http://userdomain.com points to http://useraccount.mycoolapp.com (but only shows http://userdomain.com and never the full account url). And, I want this to all happen automatically - no manual setup on my part or that of the developers who will build this system. The reason for this is two-fold. Ideally I'd like to have the site built so that it can 1) scale easily in this way, so that I can easily go from hosting pages from 20 users to hosting pages from 500 users, and also to 2) minimize or altogether remove the responsibility of having to maintain potentially 100's of users domains, and any potentially related issues (incorrect IP addresses, DNS lookup failures, etc). I was told to "look at DynDNS" but admitedly am in somewhat unfamiliar territory, as I've never built an app that has this functionality. Any advice? Am I in the right spot? |
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You've got a few things to deal with:
For the first 2 of those, the likes of the Web Hosting Talk forums are probably a good place to start. If nothing else you'll probably find there are platforms out there already set up to do this for you (for instance, if there was an open source version of the BlogSpot platform). |
