Mac.com Question

[Charles Martin]

> From: Shahara9 at aol.com
> Subject: [P1] Mac.com Question
>
> I don't yet have Mac.com.
> If I purchase a Domain name with someone
> (thinking GoDaddy)
> can I upload my website domain onto my Mac.com space (mydomainname.com)
> and if so, is there a way to get email (me at mydomainname.com)
> thru Outlook or another mail system?

This is actually quite a complicated question, but the overall answer 
is "yes."

GoDaddy offers a service that "masks" the actual location where you are 
keeping your site so yes, people can visit www.your-domain.com and it 
will look (to them) like you have a dedicated server. GoDaddy also 
offers mail services based on this, but of course this all costs extra 
(very reasonable IMHO however).

You might look into running sendmail on your OS X machine to handle 
your domain's email. It's free but a royal pain in the butt to set up. 
Some UNIX knowledge is a must.

Be aware that mac.com has very strict bandwidth limits (though they 
won't tell you exactly what they are!), so if you plan this website of 
yours to be very popular you should probably spring for a "real" 
hosting service. But for a basic page/site with no fancy CGI/Perl/etc 
that doesn't expect a lot of traffic, it should be just fine.

_Chas_

"Executives in the PC business use the word "sexy", in such a way that 
I'm always surprised to discover that their children aren't adopted. 
The Mac interface is not "sexy", and it would be grotesque to want it 
to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into 
frivolity. The bouncing icons (and the puffs of smoke and the 
pipe-organ speech synthesizer and the way dialogs tidily resize and the 
drop-shadows on the windows and the jellybean buttons and the eject key 
on the keyboard) are not individually rationalizable on utilitarian 
grounds, and they do not pretend they mean to be. They are there to, in 
aggregate, change the nature of your relationship with the device. They 
are joyful, and they hope their joy is infectious." -- Glenn McDonald