Multiple domain hosting for cheap domain hosting
Written by nadz on December 29, 2008 – 2:00 pm -Please rate this article
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Loading ...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.
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