I need to know a thing about hosts that is probably not common knowledge...

If there is any telltale indication which would let me know if a host would be set up so that I could supply user accounts (for webpages) which would take the form of http://www.sanguinarius.org/~username

I need to know how to know if users pages would be http://username.sanguinarius.org or http://www.sanguinarius.org/~username

I do the http://www.sanguinarius.org/~username on my domain now. If I move, I want to be able to continue doing that. How can I find out? Is it a particular type of server? What?

If the following info helps any, I'm on a unix server and it uses RAQ. My current directory structure looks like:

/

certs
includes
logs
users
..akrieytaz
....web
..irc
....web
..sarasvati
....web
..vamp
....web
web

(Please ignore the periods; I put htem there so the text would be indented.)

Under "web" directory are located the files that are accessible from the web.

If anybody can give me info on this, I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks.

You could look for another Cobalt Raq host.

But, your best bet would be to find a couple hosts you like, and ask them.

I don't know of any tell-tale way of telling if a host supports this, but this is not something hard to set up for any host who has experience. It will however take you a lot of work to find a host that is not just reselling and does have that kind of experience.

I can't spam here so I can't tell you that we would be able to set that up on our servers, but I can tell you that it is a simple process and any host with proper experience in web hosting should be able to do it if you requested.