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 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?
I know that the fees weren’t outrageous or anything. They cost me just shy of $15 per month. But I still had troubles paying it. 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. 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 bizarre these days of course.
What’s worse, doing anything to your site required submitting a ticket. 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.
Thankfully, these days, things are much more advanced. It’s not uncommon to have your sites hosted in different continents. People are paying 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. One of the most common of the tasks on GoDaddy is to add extra web sites to your unlimited hosting package. I wrote an article which explains this task in plain English. It’s very simple to follow along. Read it here: Godaddy Deluxe Hosting
