The four hosting modes: Website, Forwarding, No hosting and Shop

Every domain in TDesk runs in one of four modes, and you can switch between them at any time from the panel.

1. Website

Standard web hosting — an nginx + PHP-FPM vhost under your isolated Linux user, with databases, files and SSL. This is the mode for a normal site or application.

2. Forwarding

The domain simply redirects visitors to another address. Ideal for a spare or alternate domain that should send people to your main site.

3. No hosting

Mail and DNS only — no web vhost. Use this when a domain exists to carry email or DNS records but has no website of its own.

4. Shop

Turns the domain into a full ecommerce storefront (see our ecommerce article) rather than a plain website.

Because the mode is a per-domain setting, a single account can mix a live website, a redirect, a mail-only domain and a shop side by side.