Running multiple websites

Posted by Average Joe on January 27, 2009 under Hosting | Be the First to Comment

At some point once you have gotten started with running a website on the internet, you are more then likely going to get to a point that you want to start another. At some point this will grow to three or four or even more sites. In reality their is no limit to the number of sites, that you can operate except for your imagination and your time.

The one thing that you need to begin to look at once you start growing your internet portfolio is how to host multiple sites without it costing a fortune in hosting. This can fortunately be found by ways of reseller hosting accounts and/or dedicated servers.

With a single hosting account you can pay as little as $3 or $4 for a basic option, and up depending on the options that you need.

When you move to a shared reseller hosting plan, you are going to be looking at minimum pricing around $20 – $30. For this you are pretty much given an allocation of the resources that make up hosting packages such as bandwidth, storage and mostly unlimited things like MYSQL databases, email accounts and such. You then have the ability to break this up in chucks of varying sizes depending on your needs for different sites. Generally you will find that you begin to save money from about 8 sites up. However this entirely depends upon your host and their fees.

After this you can move to a Dedicated server. Prices for dedicated servers start around $80-$100 a month and the sky is really the limit for price on these type of services. Again all dependent upon your needs. Basically a dedicated server is a single web server dedicated to your use. This gives you a lot more power and control over the way that you run your website. While at some point it will become a more economical means of hosting, especailly if you run a number of larger sites, it really does also take a fair amount of knowledge to operate to it’s full potential.

If you are looking for web hosting there are a number of different options available.

In Australia you can contact Joel Brown at Orion Networks for a hosting solution from a local company.

More options will be listed in the near future.