How To Host Several Websites Under One Account
If
you can host several websites under one account, it can save
you some web hosting cost. This article reveals how.
If you operate several websites, each with its own domain
name,
signing up of separate ...hosting accounts can be an expensive
proposition. Even if your hosting company offers the add-on
domain feature (which will allow you to add different domains
to
the same hosting account) you will be charged a monthly fee
for
each domain you add, sometimes costing almost the same as
your
full hosting fee.
Another one is to use web hosting companies like WebsiteSource
where they allow you to host several websites in one account
without additional fee.
Another solution is to open a reseller account. Reseller
accounts were created to allow web designers to offer hosting
services to their customers, to create a one-stop-shop for
all their web design and hosting needs. However, you don't
need to be a reseller to buy a reseller hosting plan.
Reseller accounts are usually slightly more expensive than
regular hosting accounts, but they will allow you to host
different domain names without incurring in the add-on domain
fees, making more efficient use of your space and bandwidth.
You want to choose a reseller account that offers:
no limit to the number of domains you can add. the possibility
of hosting your main website free, without using any of the
space and bandwidth in your hosting plan. If you are a reseller,
your main website will be your business website, and the space
and bandwidth will be reserved for your customers. If you
are
not a reseller and just want to manage different websites,
you
can designate one of your domains as your main website (usually
the largest and/or most popular, since you won't accrue any
space or bandwidth for it). the possibility of upgrading to
another plan without any penalties or fees. To find out how
much
space and bandwidth you will need, first determine how many
sites you are likely to host, how many pages each site may
have,
and how many visits will those sites most likely have. If
you
plan to host 10 sites with 20 pages each, at an average of
50KB
per page and 100 page views per site per day, you will need
10MB
of space (10 x 20 x 50KB) and 1.5GB of bandwidth per month
(10 x
100 x 50KB x 30).
As far as pricing is concerned, there are reseller accounts
costing as little as $10 / month up to several hundreds (or
even thousands). It all depends on your requirements and the
hosting company you choose, so shop around to get the best
possible deal in terms of cost and reliability.
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Mario Sanchez publishes The
Internet Digest, an online collection of web design and
Internet marketing articles and resources.
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