Hosting fees can rack up pretty easily, especially if you own several domains. I myself own several domain names (at least 100 by now), more than most would probably own. There are some domain hosts, that offer individual hosting. Meaning you pay x amount for 1 domain to be hosted. If that were the case for me, my hosting fees, would be outrageous. That may be the case for some people.
As of right now, I have over 80 domains up and running under one hosting account, guess how much I pay?
I pay only $13.49 per month for the hosting. The same price, for a good meal at a restaurant these days. If I had less domain names, I could pay around $5.94 per month, about the same price as a meal from Burger King. So we are not talking about back breaking prices here.
You may be surprised to know, that I am using Godaddy as my host. The current plan that I am using is the Premium Plan running a Linux based server, normal pricing for the premium plan, Linux based server is $14.99 per month, but since I have paid for 2 years in advance I paid at a rate of $13.49 per month. Even though I have paid in advanced, Godaddy is flexible enough, that If I wanted to cancel with godaddy, they would fully reimburse me of my money without any penalty fees for canceling. So It is a good idea to pay for advance, especially with the savings.
Still though, a lot of people, don’t know how to utilize the function of adding multiple domains to be hosted under the same account in Godaddy. How do I know that not a lot people don’t know how to do this? Well, I don’t remember what I called in for, but about a year ago, when I called godaddy technical support, the tech support rep was surprised at my knowledge, and acknowledged to me that he does not get a chance to speak to people who know what they are doing, and told me that not many people know they can add more than 1 domains under hosting on the same account for godaddy.
How to add another domain in Godaddy under one hosting account
First of all, there are a few ways to achieve this, but you need to have a Linux based server. Anyways, on to the instructions.
1. After you have signed in to godaddy, hover your mouse over, Hosting & Servers, select “My Hosting Account”.
2. At this point, you will see one or more of the hosting accounts that you have purchased from godaddy. Pick the one you want to work with, and click to open it.
3. Hover your mouse over settings, and select domain management. This will be the panel where you add all your domains, so pay close attention, so you don’t make any mistakes.
4. We are now in the domain management section, Under the “Assign Domain to Hosting Site”, select your domain, once you have selected your domain, you will need to choose your “Domain Hosting Path”, you will want to select “enter directory path”.
5. In the domain hosting path area, you will want to type a name, that is familiar to the domain name, so perhaps if your domain name is mydomainname.com then it would be a good idea to type in ‘/mydomainname’. After you have typed your desired folder path, you will then click add, and wait a few seconds for it to finish adding it.
6. When you login in your ftp server, you will now see a folder called ‘mydomainname’, anything uploaded to that folder is your mydomainname.com website.
If you have any questions on this process, you are always welcome to leave a comment in this post, and I will be glad to reply. Or alternatively, you can always call up godaddy support, they are open 24/7, and usually are very helpful.
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Thank you for this. I have been paying an absurd amount for hosting each individual domain as you stated. A starter hosting package with domaindirect.com is 14.95 per month and includes one domain only. Oh…and guess what, that doesn’t give you the option for creating databases either. For that you need the standard hosting which is 24.95 per month……and yep, you guessed it….that only includes one domain.
I haven’t really taken the time to do too much research, but from what I’ve seen this is the best.
Thanks.
Hey Pat,
You can also check out HostGator a few of my friends use them, and have said good things about them.
I use godaddy, and that has worked for me, and thats the main reason why I have not tried out hostgator, I just visited the site now, and it seems that hostgator has lowered their prices, and are a little bit cheaper than godaddy.
Glad to hear that this will be helpful!
Hey Jean,
I have 3 domains that I have with the same host… all subdomains of moneyrelations. I’m trying to build my portfolio but I was wondering if that’s a good idea for SEO purposes?
Would the fact that they are all subs negate link building? I think I read from the SEO book that it does.
Obviously, at my stage, I’m not going to shell out more for domain hosting but later on, I might branch out to another host.
Subdomains is tricky, I personally don’t have much experience in using them, I prefer to use sub-directories.
What I do know is that the search engines, tend to count them as separate websites. ‘example.jeancosta.com’ would be counted as a separate website. Still though, thats is what the search engines count them as, and in reality really you should be using the sub domains for the convenience of your website, and not in terms of the seo benefits. Why? Because in the long run, it will be better that way. Theres is nothing to say that maybe 2 years from now, the search engines won’t modify its rules on the issue of subdomains.
You would be right though to say that links pointing to subdomains don’t count much if any towards the domain.
I hope that helps, great question!
I have both add-on domains and subdomains. The problem with subdomains is they share pagerank. They also share google penalties. Say you make a landing page on domain.mydomain.com. All of mydomain.com suffers if google penalizes your site. That’s what happened to me. Then they will never tell you what the violation is. So if you have 10 subdomains, your left scratching your head looking at all your page rank 0 websites.
Good info, turnip. So it really doesn’t matter if I use subdirectories and subdomains. If Google decides to promote/slap me, they do it to all.
I’ll agree, I’ve been surprisingly happy with GoDaddy, despite the fact that a lot of webmaster forums trash them on a regular basis. The main thing I like about GoDaddy’s hosting is that no matter what your problem is, someone else has probably already solved it and talked about it on a blog or forum.
Well…I’ve started the process of making the switch. After carefully reviewing the options and services of bother HostGator and GoDaddy I have opted to go with HostGator.
I am in process of switching all the current domains that I own over to my account on hostgator. When this is complete then I will change over my main site to them as well. From what I have read, one of there techs will do it for me. This is nice as I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing this.
Jean, thank you again for opening my eyes to better opportunities. You ROCK!
Jean, are you aware the four pingbacks you approved here on top are of spammy chunk sites?
Faithful Akismet is often a BIG help.
~Marcus
I was aware, and you are right they were junk sites, I just neglected them, I removed them now
Thank you Marcus!
Right now I use Spam Karma 2 to keep the spam away. It does a very nice job.
I’ve never been one to overpay for website hosting. I’ve used HostUltra.com for a number of years. $20/yr and I’m a happy camper.