Multiple Hosting Accounts or Dedicated Server?

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I have a couple little affiliate sites now, each on separate $8 /month hosting accounts.

I have some ideas for 5-10 more, all really just 2-4 page clones of the first two, just with different content/products.

How do most people handle that? Do I keep just buying a separate hosting account for each?

I could potentially see myself down the road with 20 of these little sites, and it could get expensive. Just wondering if there is a standard way to handle this.
 


Well it sounds like you're throwing money down the drain. If I were you, get a business package with HostGator or some similar service, that will run you about $15/month, and you can host unlimited domains on that.

I have a HG account that's $15/mo and I host probably 20 small sites on that single account.

Check your cPanel, there should be an option like "Addon Domains"
 
HG's business account is enticing because of the 1-800 number. That's pretty cool, I wish they did that with VPS accounts.
 
Just put them all under the one shared account. If they're small sites it shouldn't be a problem.
 
Yes you can put all account in a sharing account where your all websites is under one host. Just check the same host allow more domains in one account or not & unlimited bandwidth if your sites have huge traffic in future.
 
As other have said, shared hosting is fine. You probably already have it.

Don't be fooled by "Unlimited Domains", the cpu and memory resources are very limited.

Bompa
 
Personally, I use several different reseller accounts which are on different class-c IP's. If your domains interlink at all, it's always been standard practice to spread them across the various IP's so as to not obviously be gaming the system.

Unlimited is only unlimited until you become a pain, especially if you're running a truckload of resource eating autoblogs.
 
As usual important info was left out of the question. How are these sites being promoted? SEO, PPC? This makes a very big difference in the answer to this question.
 
I personally use a reseller account from resellerzoom.com. I'm not an affiliate for them or anything, I just think they've done a good job with customer service. I've been a buyer of their hosting services for a couple of years now. The good news is that it's affordable and unless you're getting a ton traffic (and a ton of money more than likely) then I would go on up to a dedicated server. If you're just starting out but have multiple websites, I think that's the route to go.
 
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