Web Forwarding
Although our email service does not include any web hosting, you can have the website for your email domain forward to another website.
You have three choices for exactly how this forwarding works:
1. Standard forwarding
You can choose any website address to forward your email domain to. Whenever someone visits your domain in their browser, they will be automatically redirected to the destination URL that you choose.
The system can also append any subdirectories, filenames or script parameters (query strings) given in the request onto the destination URL - this is best explained with an example:
Forwarding examples
Email domain: example.co.uk
Forwarding destination: http://mywebsite.myisp.net
| Browser visiting... | is redirected to... |
|---|---|
| http://www.example.co.uk | http://mywebsite.myisp.net |
| http://www.example.co.uk/links.html | http://mywebsite.myisp.net/links.html |
| http://www.example.co.uk/about/ | http://mywebsite.myisp.net/about/ |
| http://www.example.co.uk/about/links.html?a=b | http://mywebsite.myisp.net/about/links.html?a=b |
Note that your forwarding destination does not need to be a domain name, it could be a full URL - e.g. http://mywebsite.myisp.net/my_folder/my_file.html.
2. Frames forwarding
Sometimes referred to as "masking", this option works in exactly the same way as standard forwarding except that frames are used so that your email domain name stays in the address bar of the browser.
3. Parking
If you have a Purple Cloud web hosting account, you can park your email domain onto your web hosting domain. The effectively makes your email domain an alias for your web domain.
We use this facility to park purplecloud.net onto our main domain name, purplecloud.com. This means that people can browse around the .net site in exactly the same way as someone browsing the .com.