How can I host multiple websites with one hosting account?
I want to build several small websites (1-2 pages) for a few domains. Is there any way to buy one hosting package and share it between many domains?
I have used yahoo (favorite!) and go daddy for hosting. It seems with them I have to buy a hosting package for each domain. Is there any way to get around this?
ps. I also realize that I could just forward these domain names to pages hosted with another website account – that is not the answer I am looking for. I want each domain to appear to be its own unique website (to the search engines as well!)
Thanks!
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you need a multiple domain host like http://www.JuicyHosting.com
Depending on the hosting company, you may host from 1 to sometimes as many as 10 different domains.
Try http://www.hostdepartment.com
I believe they will let you host up to 10 domains. Keep in mind that each domain registration costs about $10-$12 there, but you can obviously register your domains anywhere else and only host them at hostdepartment.com.
Good luck,
I.G.
Ask them what your hosting url path is, then make seperate folders within your hosting and forward your different domains to the different folders. Either that or you could do a URL redirect, but search engines don’t like them.
I do the exact same thing you are trying to do with GoDaddy. FTP the HTML document for the new domain to your hosting account. Forward the domain to that document. Mask the domain by clicking on "Domain Names" then "Manage Domains" then click on one of the domains.Under "Forwarding" click on the URL, then click "Masking" then enter what you want displayed in the browser’s address bar.
I do mine using two mechanisms. (This is for real, it works for me, I’ll use aliases in the descriptions!)
(1) I pay for all the domain names. I have four of them. Let’s call them, http://www.a.com, http://www.b.com, http://www.c.com, and http://www.d.com. This costs $6.95 per year, each. Cheap. You *might* find them for less elsewhere…
(2) I pay for one hosting package. (Mine is A Small Orange, http://www.asmallorange.com, and I’m very pleased with them.) I *could* get free hosting through Google, and I’m thinking about it, but there’s no server-side software, so I’d have to work around that…
(3) On the host (step 2) http://www.a.com is set up as the "owner" and the other domains are "parked", which is to say, they have "permission" to direct their website calls to this host. If I were to set up hosting through Google, then I’d set it up so each of the four domains had its own independently "owned" hosting space, not "parked". See?
(4) On the "domain name" registrar side (step 1) I set up dns pointers specifying the host (step 2). In each case, the dns name points to a specific .htm file. For example, the dns pointer for http://www.a.com is set to http://www.a.com/ahome.htm and the one for http://www.b.com is set to http://www.b.com/bhome.htm…and like that. So, on the host at (step 2), even though ahome.htm is in the same directory as bhome.htm, calls to http://www.a.com and http://www.b.com would reach the correct destination.
Now, you could make two refinements, as I have in the past. Either:
a. You could have index.htm at (step 2) include a javascript which intercepts the domain name and redirects to an appropriate htm file, and/or
b. You could place each domain in a subfolder on the host (step 2). Subfolders would make more sense for Google/Yahoo! searches and indexing.
Hope this helps.
If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a "homepage" which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage. Nevertheless, the "homepage" URL is likely to be "http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name" and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., "mydomain.com" which allows you to link any number of registered domain names to "mask" another website or a singular set of webpages (1-2 pages). It is highly recommended that one should make use of an homepage option [to create any number of added webpages] at a singular priced host site. As for avoiding hosting fees for other domain names; merely "park" them at various registries and use their forwarding/masking option to link with your website or to a particular homepage URL.
This is a "redirection" strategy and is also a "multiple" domain name linkage service offered by "mydomain.com." This "multiple" redirection service is more comprehensive than the single forwarding/masking option offered at godaddy.com [which is referenced by another forum member]. Mydomain.com requires that each and every domain name be "parked" at their website and have listed on their originating registries, mydomain.com’s DNS address which is "NS1.mydomain.com; NS2.mydomain.com, etc."
Nevertheless, should you still want to use godaddy.com, you should merely "park" and "forward" the domain name[s] [with full masking] to a particular "webpage" URL. When you desire to make any changes to a particular webpage [which is really one of your homepages], it will be reflected on the redirected domain name website, accordingly.
However, there is a downside to implementing multiple domain names to mask a singular website via godaddy.com or mydomain.com: most major search engines/directories will only index the "actual homepage or its opening index.html webpage." The reason why the major search engines will disallow multiple redirected website submissions, is to prevent artificially "loading" of duplicative published website submissions which unfortunately, as a strategy falls under the definition of a spamdexing no-no.
Good luck!
You can do this with the deluxe hosting plan at http://www.doggydomains.com It’s $9.95 for unlimited domains.
When you have a web hosting account with any webhost which allow you to put more than 1 domains on that account, they normally ask you to create a folder for your new domain and then on you request they do the setting.
There are so many hosts of that kind. visit
http://www.vote4hosting.info
for more so many of such hosts.
Cheers
Hello,
Multiple domain hosting all depends on which hosting company you choose to use. I know that http://www.freewebhosting.ws offers multiple domain hosting on both their Windows and Linux hosting accounts. Text from their homepage: "Host Unlimited Domains." I would give them a check.
As for your other question. Even if your hosting multiple domains you will have to have different pages, keywords, text, etc.. for the S.E.’s to see each website as a unique page.
Hope that helps.
Regards.
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