Web Hosting For Smart People

Web hosting has evolved and is now much better. I was very very broke when I got into this business over 10 years ago. I paid monthly for my web hosting and dreaded the beginning of the month when I had to send in the next payment. I really was unsure about my direction in life. I often had to rethink my whole career because I figured if I couldn’t scrape together enough money to pay my hosting fees each month, was I just fooling myself?

It’s not hosting cost a ridiculous amount of money. They cost me just shy of $15 per month. Laugh if you like, I still had troubles managing my money properly to get it paid. Since I was late, my site would be down until I was able to finally pay the bill.

On top of that, when I tried to expand my business and create new websites I usually had to tuck them in a folder off the root if my main site and redirect the domain name to that folder. Most of the hosting companies that I dealt with frowned upon such activity and my accounts were often shut down. I was running out of hosting companies, so I thought, but mind you I was only dealing with local companies. It never even occurred to me to venture outside the country (or even city) to lay down new virtual land. Sounds strange now that I type this.

Plus I had to submit trouble tickets anything I wanted to do anything to my sites. As a result it took days to accomplish simple tasks such as adding support for dynamic scripting languages such as ASP, or to change permissions on folders or files.

These days however, things are drastically different. It’s not uncommon to have your sites hosted in different continents. We are being billed 1, 2, 3 or more years in advance. People are also hosting all of their websites under just one account and their costs aren’t increasing at all.

I deal with multiple companies now for my hosting needs. One such company, offering unlimited hosting, for less than I was paying for one-site hosting back in the day, is GoDaddy. I have almost as much control as I want with this hosting package, but this came with a bit of a learning curve for me but now I have the process down to a science. I laid out some simple steps for one of the common tasks which is adding additional web site to your GoDaddy hosting package. Read this article to see exactly how, the process is broken down into simple chunks: Godaddy Multiple Sites On One Host