Directing masked URLs to directories. Is it okay?
I have been thinking about launching a small web design business for people on tight budgets due to the rough economy. I was thinking about the many ways I can cut down on the costs for my potential customers. One idea that came to mind is hosting a few peoples websites on the same hosting account. What I mean by this is, making directories that each hold a person's entire website and simply purchasing a domain, masking it, and directing it to that directory on my already existing hosting account. The hosting account I would be using will allow massive amounts of bandwidth so I'm not worried about that. Plus, the websites would be for small local businesses so they will not be getting much traffic, only a handful of visitors monthly. So my question is, would most hosting companies allow this? By this I mean hosting multiple, unrelated websites on the same hosting account? For example MonsterHost or Gatorhost(I hope I was clear)
povidiu posted this at 16:20 — 8th September 2009.
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Hello,
From what I understood, this is made exactly as you said if your hosting is allowing multiple domain hosting. So you do not have to reinvent the hot water, you just need to be sure you own a hosting that allow multiple domains or instead of cpanel simple you own a WHM cpanel.
davecoventry posted this at 20:03 — 8th September 2009.
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Yes.
I'm using Hostmonster, and so far I'm very impressed.
They advertise that they will allow unlimited domain names on the same account and, as far as I can see they do. I have around ten and they seem to be okay with that. They do have a forum where you can ask specific questions here: hostmonsterforums.com
I think they might be slightly more expensive than others, by perhaps a dollar a month, but the reason I went with them initially was that they offered a PostgreSQL database in addition to MySQL.
They have quite a few software add ons including Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, forums, etc.
I had a couple of issues, once when I crashed the MySQL server and once when they upgraded to a new server and in both cases I was speaking to them on the chatline and it was all resolved in minutes. This in spite of the fact that it was 3am Mountain time, or whatever.
If you do decide to use them please use the link on the localbuz home page (link in my sig). That way I get a couple of bucks out of it.
Regards,
Dave.
PS. They don't offer separate control panels and ftp access for your individual clients which might be a disadvantage, but if you use a CMS like Drupal, your clients can control and edit the content anyway.
mrgilb posted this at 15:23 — 30th September 2009.
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Well it is a virtual directory.
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