Best way to host multiple sites

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Hi all,

I was wondering what the best hosting solution would be to start building up multiple sites.

I understand that a standard hostgator kind of account really seperate your sites anyhow, is my only option to go on a reseller package? Is there a package that will let me create seperate sites for each domain on a standard offer?

I was going to budget £10 per month or so for hosting.

Help on this would be greatly appreciated =)
 
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Can't help on how to do it but I don't think you'll need to spend that much for hosting. I get 5Gb of traffic allowance on jonny69.co.uk and it's about £3 per month.
 
Probably not the best way, but certainly the most flexible. You can get a VPS from slicehost.com for $20 a month. You could host as many domains as you wanted on that (Memory allowing) with 100GB / month bandwidth.
 
reseller account

I use clook at the moment although im looking for other hosts as their mail guard feature is gay and inflexible
 
I don't know why you're also suggesting reseller accounts. If you're going to own and administer all the sites yourself then any normal shared hosting account will do this for you. There's absolutely no reason why you need separate cpanels. Just set up the extra domains as add-on domains and you'll get folders acting as the roots for those sites.
 
How would it affect things from an SEO perspective if I do it with shared hosting?

What is the case vs shared hosting with add-on domains vs a reseller account.

Thanks for all your replies :D
 
From an SEO perspective it depends what you're going to do with the domains. If you're setting them up purely to cross-link then you're stuck in 2007 anyway. Especially since the last google update, more and more it's important to have links from high authority sites, not just links with decent keyword text. To answer your question more directly - Google will see them being on the same IP, but then it's quite usual because there could be hundreds of domains on that IP if it's a shared server. If those links make up say 5-10% of your link profile then google will allow them to pass full link-juice. If they make up all your links then Google will realise what you're playing at and ignore the links - but they'll do that anyway if you're setting yourself up a link-farm. Basically, if you're setting the multiple domains up for the purpose of SEO its very unlikely it would work and you'd be far better off having all the content on a single domain - you'll have far higher domain diversity linking to the single site, you'll have a higher percentage of deep-linking and generally you'll rank better.

Shared hosting with add-on domains will cost you whatever the hosting costs you. Reseller accounts will cost more, be slightly more complicated and if you're running the sites yourself there will be no advantages of having a reseller account. Certainly, using a reseller account will not help you in terms of IP and thus SEO.
 
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Thank you very much fini, I wasn't planning to cross link and I'm not setting up a farm, just want to develop the sites individually. I will go with shared hosting and upgrade if necessary.
 
trescodrucey said:
Reseller account

That way, each can have a seperate Cpanel for each domain.

My recommendation
SurpassHosting.com
http://www.surpasshosting.com/hosting-reseller-solutions.php
I think it's about £13 for more space and bandwidth than you can ever use
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More space/bandwidth that you can ever use? Try using all of it and see what happens. That company is just screaming overseller. Read their terms and conditions and you will find so many limitations.

Jonny69 said:
Can't help on how to do it but I don't think you'll need to spend that much for hosting. I get 5Gb of traffic allowance on jonny69.co.uk and it's about £3 per month.
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Yet again. At £3/mo I doubt you get all that space.

Anyway, since the decision has already been made, I'll keep my advice out of this thread.
 
Alex L said:
Yet again. At £3/mo I doubt you get all that space.
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What are you talking about? Even vidahost (who always go out their way to say that they are not the cheapest option out there (the best option IMHO though)) give you 25GB bandwidth for £3/mo.

What kind of rip-off host are you using?
 
www.s-i-g-m-a.co.uk

50p/month
6GB Diskspace
Unlimited Bandwidth (Your Web-Site speed will be restricted to 10Mbps after 60Gb Data Transfer per month. This WILL NOT affect anything but File Downloads)
Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
10 MySQL Databases

99.99% Uptime in April (tested every minute by www.hyperspin.com)
102GB BW transferred in April

What more could you ask for. ;)

If you want to host multiple sites, you will have to buy Entry Business Hosting or Professional Business Hosting. £12/£25 - year respectively.
 
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I'm not just talking about 5GB space. But if you use your limits, most hosts kick you off. And my "rip of host" charges me £7.50 a year. Although, they would kick me off for anything. More than 0.0001% cpu usage or something as ridiculous as that gets you suspended. Slight over exaggeration there.

Anyway, I read it as space not bandwidth *blushes*
 
Alex L said:
I'm not just talking about 5GB space. But if you use your limits, most hosts kick you off. And my "rip of host" charges me £7.50 a year. Although, they would kick me off for anything. More than 0.0001% cpu usage or something as ridiculous as that gets you suspended. Slight over exaggeration there.

Anyway, I read it as space not bandwidth *blushes*
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Most of the honest, decent hosts recommended on these forums don't put in place artificial limits of any kind. If you pay for xGB, you can use xGB. :)
 
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