Thread: Splitting up the webspace?

I was wondering how to (I know it is possible but I'm not a technical wonder) split the webspace and use it for two separate websites...

I have a lot of webspace unused in my package and since a second website is on its way, I thought it would be handy to just host them both in the same package. The second website would be WordPress-based, whereas the existing one is built with BlueVoda.

Now the question is: if I purchase a second domain name, how can I link the existing domain to my existing BlueVoda-built site, and the second domain to the WordPress-built content?

Sorry if this seems like a silly question, my knowledge of IT is rather limited ... *blush*

Just create an addon domain..click the below for instructions...

http://www.vodahost.com/demowolf/x3/...-x3-addon.html

Somewhat similar probably to add-on domains, but is it also the same way one can use a subdomain for certain portions of the site? If I launch my newly updated version of my site soon but want the old version to remain reachable as an archived site using a URL such as http://old.site-domain.tld ... Is that done in a similar way as when you spread content of the site across different domains?

Nobody??

I would assume that it would be possible to use a subdomain for my site for one specific area of the site (eg travel.domain.com for all travel-articles, sports.domain.com for all sports-related articles, etc) but I guess that uploading the pages to the right subdomain requires certain settings?

You would be better with the SE's using an add-on domain for a new site with different content. Sub domains don't seem to carry the same clout.
But if it was a site with different departments for (Lets say) a builders business. You could just have:
www.building.com/plumbing/
www.building.com/electrical/
www.building.com/carpenters/
& so on. Then just place a new index page for each new directory.

I am working on the new version of my site, but as stated (I thought I'd better pick up this thread than creating a new similar-ish one) I would like to keep the old version online too. Because in the end it was the first website I ever built so would feel a bit sad to take it offline completely. Maybe also some uncertainty of my webbuilding skills, wanting to keep the old version online just in case ...

Anyways, I understand that subdomains are thus a bit unhandy and that http://old.name-of-site.tld would be somewhat unhandy whereas name-of-site.tld/old would be perfectly possible to lead to the old version of the site? How do I go about creating a separate section of the webspace to move the entire old site to (or even better: copy the old version to, thus leaving it also in the normal main part of the webspace where I could adapt the pages and add new pages which would then become the updated new version of the site) ?