Hi,

I own a domain and I am planning to offer free web hosting to my clients, just as brinkster used to do www.brinkster.com/<client1>, www.brinkster.com/<client2> etc.

I need to understand, that do I need to create virtual directories for individual clients? or if I just place their folders under the default site, that would do the trick? Needless to say, its in ASP.Net :), so web.config horrors are all expected!! :)

Thanks a million!!

Hi,

I understand that you wanna provide service to people so they can have a site with URL www.yoursite.com/theirsite
Since you will have different applications, then I think you need to create a virtual directory for each one. So that there won't be any colligen between applications. Please let me know if I have miss understood or there is a better way.

Regards,
lordfkiller

Both sub directory and virtual folder will work for you. But it is reccommded to go for virtual directories so that you can set  permissions on the virtaul directory for each user. Also, if you create them as virtual folders, you can move all member folders to another root level directory so that it won't mess up with your own site. I helped the http://www.aspspider.net team to develop their free hosting system. We have done something very similar.

However, to implement the subdomain feature, you need to do something more. See the thread -  http://forums.asp.net/888158/ShowPost.aspx. If you just need http://www.yourdomain.com/membername, then it is pretty straight forward.