How do you host other people off of your site?, Hosts and Hostees Options

[theerinkal]

I read a board that said, "Hosts looking for Hostees".
That would be subdomain hosting, right?

I don't really understand the concept. Why don't people use freewebs?

What is the difference between a Host and a Hostee?
The host is the person with the actual site,if so the hostee would be the person with the site off of your site, right?

I would like to know how to let people have a
theirsitenamehere.yoursitenamehere.com
or something like that.

How do you do that? I'm using freewebs, which after my year is up I'm going to change where it is.

[venti-anemoi]

I don't think subdomain hosting is a bad thing. There are a lot of perks - more space and bandwidth, no ads, flexibility with said space and bandwidth, PHP and MySQL and other stuff that I don't think freewebs or other such free hosting servers have.

There are such things as bad hosts, though, so you should do your research before deciding on one (good hosts will usually notify you if they're planning on letting their domains expire or whatnot, and give you time to look for a new host), and keep a list of other possible hosts should yours go down. And back up all of your files.