Most website owners start with one website, one blog, and one site to call their own. However, a growing number of site owners need multiple domain hosting.
Whether they need the websites for business or personal reasons, multiple domain hosting is on the rise.
This article will be an overview of how to find the best hosting solutions for your numerous sites.
What Is Multiple Domain Hosting?
Wikihow describes multiple domain hosting as follows:
 More often … people not only own one domain  name, they have several domain names registered under their name. What is missing is often the knowledge on how to host the matching websites without paying a fortune.
Therefore, below we will give you a quick 5-step solution to find the right hosting company for your numerous websites without paying a small fortune on hosting.
How To Find Good Multiple Domain Hosting Options?
1. Find a hosting company that will support multiple site hosting. While most hosting companies do offer multiple domain hosting, the service varies tremendously. Find the services that can do the most for your hosting needs. A few good places to start are AussieHost, HostGator, and Blue Host.
2. Once you find a good hosting company, check to see what features and benefits they have for their services. For example, let’s say you have a business that operates out of the US and Australia. You might want to consider AussieHost for your Australian site, and then HostGator or BlueHost for your US site. That way, you will be able to maximize your speeds in both countries, because having your internet pass through different international boundaries which slows down service.
3. Determine how many sites you need to set up, and which will be your main site. Depending upon how some hosting plans work, you might find some websites hosts better than others. How much space is available, so you can successfully host 50 websites at one time? What about hosting 10 sites? How much disk space does each hosting company have? How many domains do they allow?
4. If you purchased your domain on one site, and your hosting on another you need to make sure that you can move the DNS settings for your blog, so it will point at its new site. This should be a simple process with the right hosting and domain company.
5. Does your hosting company have a CPanel? When I first started hosting sites, I used GoDaddy. They are great for domains, but do not even have a CPanel to easily make changes in your site. CPanels are very useful when you need to make changes to your sites back end.
In the end, you will have to determine which hosting company provides you with the best features and benefits for your site. Just make sure that your hosting company is aware of the fact that you need multiple domain hosting options.
Do you use multiple domain hosting? What has your experience been with it so far?
The more website you have, the more comprehensive your web hosting has got to be. GoDaddy is a great option. But in my country, exabytes is the best. 🙂
Personally, I am using two different web hosting. One is shared and another is not. Multiple domain is good especially when you are doing niche websites. Good for value but basically, you are exposed to many issues such as ‘abusers’ or ‘pushers’.
Generally, I don’t see it as a big issue if you know what you are doing. Most guides can be found in Google and thus, just got to be a little bit hardworking 🙂
If I have a chance, I would rather go for ‘not too cheap’ web hosting if you get what I mean!
Reginald
THe timing on this is perfect because my host went down this morning and a lot of people were upset. Me, I took it in stride because that kind of outage can happen with any host; it’s how well they handle it that impresses me.
I have other sites that I’m working on and am looking at other hosting companies so I’m in the process of this. Like I said, this post is TIMELY!
I have never had an issue using GoDaddy hosting. It seems good enough for now. If I get huge I’ll just buy a server and put it inside my own home. – Scott Craighead
hi Andy
nice article help for tips for that blogger that have multiple website. i am new blogger and currently i used blue host and i fully satisfied. but i learn thing after reading your post thanks for sharing.
Andy, currently I have three sites. One is hosted on one domain host and two are hosted on another. I am still new to this field and am learning more and more by reading interesting posts like this one.
What about Hostmonster ? Some bloggers recommended it to me as a good multi-domain hosting service.
Very useful information about hosting. I am wondering in multiple domain hosting each domain will have separate cpanel or can have all domains in one?
You have cleared doubts of so many young bloggers about hosting stuff, In the starting i too confused with DNS settings actually, no one advised me like this at that time. Now blogging improved a lot and making its easy for new bloggers. However, nice article and informative.
I have hosting account of HostGator and have 4 domains on single account, its good company…
Hi Andy,
I’m so late catching up with some mentions but wanted to be sure to stop by and say thank you so much for mentioning my post here.
Hosting is so important and I knew how much in the beginning but didn’t realize what all was involved until much later. There are so many hosting services out there today and a lot of them claim to be able to do it all. I’ve found that not to necessarily be the case.
I appreciate everything that you’ve mentioned here and it’s so important. Thanks again for sharing my post and hope your month has been a good one.
~Adrienne
Managing so many website some times become headache..
Thank you for sharing this useful blog post… 🙂
What you might not know is that many, MANY of the most well -known hosting/domain registrars are actually owned by the SAME few companies, just slightly rebranded.
For example, EIG owns:
Bluehost
Domain.com
Dotster
HostGator
HostMonstor
FatCow
and about 50 other companies.
We own about 100 domains and have long ago moved all our registrations and hosting away from GoDaddy because of how they objectify women in their advertising. If that’s a concern to you, you may want to look elsewhere, too.