>>>
>>> I have a Jobs Board set up on www.jobamatic.com
>>> that has a URL of
http://usability.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs . I
>>> want to use my own domain name and jobamatic says that I can do that
>>> so
>>> that the URL would look like www.jobs.usernomics.com .
>>>
>>> Jobamatic's suggestion is to do a CNAME setup so I can use my own URL.
>>
>> No, it DNS cannot map a name using SUBDIRECTORIES using a CNAME
>> or anything else.
>>
>> You can however use a DNS SERVER name (without the extra path
>> information) IF the web service will allow you to map this name to
>> their server by IP or using what called a "Host Header" (Just a fancy
>> name for mappting a different DNS name to specific content on the
>> web server.)
>>
>> IIS web server allows this for instance but if you are using the ISP's
>> web
>> service (where you don't have full control) the ISP will need to do this
>> critical part of the mapping.
>>
>>> However, my ISP said that doing so would result in occasional errors
>>> when the
>>> servers got busy. In that case, a person looking for may main site
>>> could find themselves on the Job Board page.
>>
>> That sounds wrong -- if it works at all it should work reliably.
>>
>>> How often would you expect this type of error to occur? Should I go
>>> forward with a CNAME as suggested by jobamatic or is there another way
>>> to do this?
>>
>> IF the ISP is telling you the correct situation the it would be better to
>> ask THEM,
>> since they claim it is depending on LOAD which we cannot predict.
>>
>> You could run you own web server and forum software perhaps.
>>
>
> Thanks Herb. Much appreciated. I think I will just have them try it and
> see what happens.