Hosting Multiple Domains for my Business

[banny]

Hi

I am having my present business website completely redesigned and also setting up a web retail business.

I am going to register a few domain names related to both businesses and have a page created for each one under the various domains to try and improve the rankings.

Can anyone recommend a good company who provides packages for multiple domain hosting. I am told it will work out quite a bit cheaper than paying for hosting separately on each domain.

Obviously price is important but reliability more so.

Any suggestions from the experts on whether it should be UK or US based hosting company for ranking purposes or does it not matter?

Cheers

Paul

[LicensedToTrade]

Most ISPs provide even basic packages that will allow you to share your hosting to multiple domains. 1and1, Godaddy etc. It isn't especially unusual but make sure that if you are expecting high volumes of traffic that you have a sufficient bandwidth allowance to cope with this. Although in fairness a lot of these hosting companies offer 'unlimited' bandwidth these days.

If you are doing anything fancy like ecommerce then make sure your package is able to support the appropriate platform ie. PHP/ASP

[banny]

Thanks LicensedToTrade

The main sites will be on 'proper' hosting sites individually. I am just after a good deal on hosting multiple sites to generate some traffic. These other domains won't be taking payments etc. as this will be done through the main site.

Rang 1and1 and it almost appears too good to be true. 1and1business $9.99/m for 250gb space (total) plus 2 free domains!

[LicensedToTrade]

Thanks LicensedToTrade

The main sites will be on 'proper' hosting sites individually. I am just after a good deal on hosting multiple sites to generate some traffic. These other domains won't be taking payments etc. as this will be done through the main site.

Rang 1and1 and it almost appears too good to be true. 1and1business $9.99/m for 250gb space (total) plus 2 free domains!

1and1 are fine for this sort of thing. Lots of people like 1and1 and lots of people hate them. I use them for hosting dozens of parked domains. A basic 1and1 package will be fine for what you have just described. If all you need is a few basic sites to gain traffic then I wouldn't even bother with their business packages, just get a starter one and if your sites develop into anything bigger along the way then you can upgrade your package and you just start paying a higher monthly rate. Takes about 4 hours to upgrade with 1and1 and .coms usually register in a couple of hours. For some reason .co.uk takes a little longer as I believe you need to be registering from a UK (or uk dependacy) based IP. I registered some .co.uk domains through my work laptop once and being part of a french company all of our networks run through france so I had to fax them over a bank statement with my address to prove I was in the UK.

[banny]

I know what you mean about 1and1, like Marmite!

Cheers again:)

[banny]

Licensed

Are you saying that you register the basic package per domain i.e. $3.99/m?

If I have 20 domains that is almost $1000/year.

Or are you saying register with the basic $3.99/m service and that allows you to host, say, 20 domains (not sub-domains) for $50/year?

[webhostuk]

Hi

I am having my present business website completely redesigned and also setting up a web retail business.

I am going to register a few domain names related to both businesses and have a page created for each one under the various domains to try and improve the rankings.

Can anyone recommend a good company who provides packages for multiple domain hosting. I am told it will work out quite a bit cheaper than paying for hosting separately on each domain.

Obviously price is important but reliability more so.

Any suggestions from the experts on whether it should be UK or US based hosting company for ranking purposes or does it not matter?

Cheers

Paul

Hello,

If you are looking for cheap hosting plans to host multiple domains take a look at http://www.webhost.uk.net/shared_hosting.html

[LicensedToTrade]

Licensed

Are you saying that you register the basic package per domain i.e. $3.99/m?

If I have 20 domains that is almost $1000/year.

Or are you saying register with the basic $3.99/m service and that allows you to host, say, 20 domains (not sub-domains) for $50/year?

I'm saying register the basic hosting package. Then you will be given an account number and password. When you login and click on Manage Domains it will show any domains that you registered at the same time as the hosting. There will be a 'New' button top left of this page and by clicking that you can then register new domains and they will be automatically associated to that package. By default these domains will point to your hosted webspace. When you upload the relevant files to your hosted webspace using an FTP client you can simply put them in folders e.g. siteone, sitetwo, sitethree etc. Then you can point each domain to that folder so www.siteone.com (http://www.siteone.com) will point to the folder siteone (www.siteone.com/siteone (http://www.siteone.com/siteone)) the internet browser window will still read www.siteone.com (http://www.siteone.com) and you can repeat this for each website that you add.

[webhostuk]

If you plan to get Cpanel shared hosting plan you can just park the domains or add them as addon ..this can be done with just one click of button, that will make your work lot easier and cheaper as well.

[LicensedToTrade]

By all means give webhost a try, I've no doubt that he can offer you just as good a package and most likely offer you better support than 1and1 could.

[webhostuk]

By all means give webhost a try, I've no doubt that he can offer you just as good a package and most likely offer you better support than 1and1 could.
Thank you :) you can check our reviews as well on rate point : http://www.ratepoint.com/profile/14296

[BarryG]

fasthosts are another good ISP

[banny]

fasthosts are another good ISP

We are hosted at Fasthosts already.

Rang them earlier and they don't offer multiple hosting cheaply.

[banny]

On a related issue, I like the idea of purchasing the domains from one company and having the sites hosted by another.

Can this cause any problems or is it just a case of pointing the name servers(?) at the domain company end to the hosting company?

[banny]

Hello,

If you are looking for cheap hosting plans to host multiple domains take a look at http://www.webhost.uk.net/shared_hosting.html

Have signed up with webhost.uk.net and will see how it goes :)

[webhostuk]

Have signed up with webhost.uk.net and will see how it goes :)

Hello Banny,

Thank you to Choice us ..you will surely enjoy your stays with webhostUK LTD.

[ServWise]

All of our packages are multi-domain and multi-website capable, we don't have any limits on the number of domains, websites or mySQL databases.

[FireFleur]

Just so you aware registering multiple domains doesn't help that much when it comes to organic search engine rankings.

Instead you could just change the host qualifier, in a domain you already have. And really it is the page itself not the domain that contributes to search engine rankings, so whilst there are some things for the fully qualified domain, if you are sacrificing for one domain, you may as well do it under the same domain.

A good book on SEO is the Art of SEO (http://library.poisedsolutions.com/coding/web/the-art-of-seo.xhtml), you will find more details in there, and the general advice is to build in the same FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name), because you get the trust and date of the FQDN for the pages you are adding. Another host will only get some of the trust and a new domain starts from first see.

Personally, I have many domains, and I use many hosts in domains, but I do it knowing the effect, and absorbing the extra 'cost' because I don't have to pay anyone to build a web page or site, if I did I wouldn't use multiple domains in host or otherwise, it is too expensive for return. With that said, in the future there could be more advantages to having many domains, but in the present it is quite limited, and it is sort of discouraged so that the domain names don't run out.