Multiple Domain Hosting the New Solution to Cut Cost By James Koh At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Multiple domain hosting is the new wave of cost cutting measures by web hosts and web masters these days. This is because of the new rising concerns of many web masters that have a problem cutting costs when dealing with a web host that runs more than a single web site. It is actually quite common to many shared web hosting solutions out there, among other problems experienced by what is considered to be yesterday’s solution to hosting many websites.

One of the main alternatives that these webmasters are looking to is multiple domain hosting, and what it is actually using a single account to host multiple websites with their own domain names. This is quite different from the old system where many accounts were being managed by a single web master. When looking at this, the solution of multiple domain hosting is actually quite simple and there are many ways for you to do this. One of the more simpler ways for you to achieve this is to actually redirect all the directories and sub directories of the account into a single domain root. In this method, all you are doing is creating a subdirectory of the root domain, and all new domains will be then set up to actually point to that particular subdirectory.

The uses are the same, all that is being done is some minor name changing. The process is then automated on the end of the user, which means that even if they type in the old domain name, they will be automatically route to the newly created sub domain. While slightly technical in explanation, the process is really quite easy to do and anyone can achieve it. Many web masters are touting this method, especially for those who have more than one networked web site that have similar administrative needs. This means that you will have separate control panels and options for managing these websites, which would be quite tedious.

If you have a website with many domains within the root address, then you might want to consider multiple web hosting as well. There are other methods besides this and one of them is true multi domain hosting, which means that you will get a single domain and subdirectories, but you will receive separate ways to control each of the domains through GUI’s and panels. The benefit of this is that there will be plenty of flexibility in customising each and every domain, but of course this is a much more intensive and labour hardy method. The other method that is floating around is called multi domain housing reseller account, a mouthful of a name that allows for you to create customised websites and domains, under a single control panel. It is a really cheap way for you to start up your own web hosting company. So these are some of the alternatives to just plain old domain hosting, and one of them may be the answer to all your problems.

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