Possible to point a .com to a free type webhost address?

[Frank_Rizzo]

Say I have www.greenwidgets.com which is being held on one of my dedicated servers, and I also have a 10Mb account with one of the freebie webhosters such as wanawidgets.com. Is it possible to redirect the greenwidgets.com to the freebie webhosters site?

If someone enters

www.greenwidgets.com

they get shown

www.frank.wanawidgets.com

I don't mean redirect in apache, but DNS. i.e. entering www.greenwidgets.com drives punters to the freebie site and not the dedicated server.

I guess it depends if the IP address is static or not, and if the freebie webhosters allow it?

[davezan]

Based on what you said, it appears the only way is to use your registrar's web forwarding
service of sorts. Other than that, is there any reason why a freebie hosting provider would
let you redirect your domain name there without something in return?

[Longhaired Genius]

You could probably do it via your domain registrar but it would only work for the index page. It's a false economy in any case and can only lead to problems down the road. In my opinion it's always better to pay a reasonable ammount for hosting that is under your control.