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Multiple domain hosting for cheap domain hosting

Admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:00:14 +0000

It was the large websites that pulled the Internet traffic to themselves sometime ago. Almost all the Internet users wanted to get all of their work done from one large website with so many functionalities. Therefore, many organizations and companies wanted to incorporate all the customer oriented functionalities to their website spending a lot of money for development, integration, and maintenance. Later, when the Internet accessibility was common and easy, smaller websites started emerging, by focusing certain niches. Since these sites offered the services with a higher magnitude, consumers started to refer many smaller website in respective niches to get their things done. This was the inception of multiple domain hosting.

Nowadays, multiple domain hosting is encouraged by almost all the hosting service providers. This helps the hosting service providers to have many accounts created by one person. Imagine a scenario where a person owns one large website and he/she bears a large cost for maintenance. If the sales or users visits drop for this website, the owner of the site will be financially hit. This will negatively affect the domain and hosting service provider and he may not want to upgrade or maintain the website as he/she used to be. Instead, the customer may even downgrade the hosting infrastructure requirements losing revenue for the hosting company. In case where this customer having a few smaller websites, the financial impact on the hosting service provider will be low. This is because the customer may be able to shut a few sites down and keep some other websites running hosted in the same environment. This way, both the customer and the hosting service provider survive.

Since the hosting has become cheap, many of us can now afford a decent hosting package for less money. This has encouraged many people to host their personal websites with a lot of dynamic content and even websites for small businesses.

There are multiple methods used for multiple domain hosting. One of the main methods is called virtual hosting and this allows cheap web hosting. In this method, multiple domains are hosted in one physical server and using one web server software. Different users get their own domain which runs on a shared server.

The uniqueness of multiple domain hosting is that the use has only one account with the hosting service provider but own many domains under his/her name. This reduces the hassle the users go through when they are supposed to maintain multiple accounts with the hosting service provider for multiple domains. Many of hosting resellers offer multiple domain hosting services as hosting plans and almost all the hosting service providers now offer this facility for a cheaper price.

When Dedicated, You Are in More Control!

Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:39 +0000

As we discussed in “what are web hosting types” post, dedicated hosting service is one of the types of web hosting which has more user control involved as well as a very high cost. This type is also known as dedicated server and managed hosting service. When a company owns a dedicated server, they usually have the control over the operating system, software and hardware. In most cases, the hosting company does carryout the server administration and maintenance as an add-on service. In most of the cases, dedicated web hosting offers a high return on investment (ROI) in long run. Let’s have a look at the operating environments and software used for dedicated web hosting.

When choosing an operating system for a dedicated server, there are a number of factors coming in to play. Price of the operating system, employee familiarity and support (bug fixes, patches) are some of these parameters. Linux variants have become more popular among dedicated hosting services as you get it free and you have the full freedom of customizing it. Unlike Microsoft Windows Server versions, Linux does not require any additional license and subscriptions for support. Someone can argue about the poor support Linux distribution makers offer you when it comes to commercial hosting! Yes, this has been a burning issue for Linux variants and few of these companies now offer extended support for little money or no money at all. As an example, Redhat Linux offers the operating system and support following the same model as Microsoft but for a fraction of the price that you would end up paying for Microsoft. When it comes to Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. offers an extended support for their server versions totally free.

When it comes to software, again Linux based software dominates the industry. The simple fact is that this software is free as the operating system itself. You don’t have to add or buy this additional software since these are bundled in to the operating system. Most of the web services now run on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) technology and the expertise is everywhere unlike the dark days of Linux. On the other side, Microsoft offers variety of software for server hosting which is again expensive. Therefore, most of the dedicated web hosting is not done on Windows platform mainly due to the cost involved and lack of control over the operating system.

When Dedicated, You Are in More Control!

Admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:34 +0000