If
you plan on owning many websites,
then multiple
hosting is a great way to go. Instead of hosting one website on one
account, you can host many websites on a single account, significantly
lowering your hosting costs. In a nutshell, you only pay for one
account and yet host many websites.
Most
hosting companies only
allow you to host one website per domain. This is because they have
many customers, and need to maximize their profit to justify opening up
more hosting space, so they’ll expect you to open another
account if
you want to host another domain.
One
of the disadvantages of
multiple hosting is that if all your websites becoming popular, you may
exceed the bandwidth limit for a particular month and have your website
receive limited access. You can offset this by purchasing another
account with added bandwidth limits.
However,
this disadvantage is a small
one. The savings you will have far offset this small factor.
One
of the ways multiple hosting is carried out on a single account is by
allowing the use of add-on domains. You basically ‘add
on’ domains
within your account and these are tied in to your main domain. Each
account will always have a main domain and all your other domains are
hosted under this domain.
Multiple
domain hosting is a great
way
to cut your operating costs drastically. So if you’re still
using
single hosting domain for your websites, do consider changing to
multiple hosting to reduce your costs.