Web hosting isn’t like it used to be. When I first got started in this business, maybe a decade ago now, I was broke. I paid my hosting fees on a monthly basis, as some still do today, but I dreaded the end of the month when the next payment was due. I always had to rethink whether I should even be in this business, because I often didn’t earn enough, or couldn’t scrape together enough to pay my hosting fees.
I know that the fees weren’t outrageous or anything. 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. The hosting company would routinely take my sites down until I caught back up with my payments.
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. That practice, I found out the hard way, was against the rules of most web hosting providers that I dealt with. 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. You know, adding support for dynamic programming languages, changing or adding to the root document, changing permissions, all took days to accomplish.
Thankfully, these days, things are much more advanced. People are buying hosting packages from companies on the other side of the world. 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 have more than one hosting account with more than one company. GoDaddy is one of the companies whom I host with. I pay even less for an unlimited hosting package than I did for the one-site hosting package back in the day. 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. I wrote an article which explains this task in plain English. It’s very simple to follow along. Read it here: Multiple Sites Godaddy
