Do I Need To Pay $4.95 Hosting For Each Site Or One Hosting Package For All Sites?

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I currently run a bunch of blogs/sites on blogger. Thinking about switching to wordpress so A. I may be able to sell some sites off and B. Because you guys recommend owning your own site.

I'm new to the whole idea of hosting my own stuff since blogger is free and I don't need to. If I run wordpress do I need to pay $4.95 a month for each site I want to host or just buy one package and I can host say 5-7 sites off that one package?

Also, would you guys recommend I go with NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- or hostgator?
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    Depends.

    Some people get an account that allows unlimited domains or a reseller account. Others get multiple hosts and spread their sites around.

    If you have a limited budget, get the baby hostgator plan.

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    • Profile picture of the author RichSerafini
      I agree - this is one of the hosting plans I have and the monthly fee is well worth it.

      Originally Posted by GarrieWilson View Post

      Depends.

      Some people get an account that allows unlimited domains or a reseller account. Others get multiple hosts and spread their sites around.

      If you have a limited budget, get the baby hostgator plan.

      Garrie
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  • Profile picture of the author sunray
    It depends on your traffic. If the sites get maybe ten to hundred hits a month, you can have hundreds of them on one shared account. If one of them drops into serious traffic, and gets ten thousand hits a day, you'll need VPS for this one website.
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  • Profile picture of the author danaziz
    Agree with Garrie. The baby Hostgator plan is great.

    I am with Hostgator and have been for 6+ years and have never really had any problems. If I did run into a problem with my sites Hostgator has always had great support!
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    • Profile picture of the author 123andyt
      You just need to check whether the webhost allows multiple domains - some plans allow a single domain, others have a maximum of say 10 domains, others are unlimited (a domain being yourdomain.com).

      For instance if you look on hostgator today the Hatchling plan offers a single domain, but the Baby plan offers unlimited domains so that is the one I would personally go for ....
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  • Profile picture of the author manicmethods
    I would highly recommend getting yourself a reseller account. If those sites are making money then I would just do this. It would allow you to host an unlimited about of sites for years to come so if IM is your thing, and something you plan to continue doing then a reseller account it is!

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author sciguy40
    If you are serious about IM, then you HAVE to get a reseller plan that lets you host unlimted domains. For about the price of hosting 4-5 sites, you can have one.

    I also agree with what most folks here are saying .. HOSTGATOR all the way, Baby!!! I have used 3-4 others and NONE of them come close to Hostgator!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin McNally
    As others have mentioned Hostgator is fine as it will meet your needs since you can buy the baby plan and add on domains at no cost. If you are new to ftp etc I think the reseller hosting plan is more user friendly to get started but not required.

    I have heard blue host are pretty good also.

    Whatever you decide it's a good move to get paid hosting for a number of reasons.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexbardera
    You don't necessarily need a reseller plan to host multiple domains. Check all the plans. Some hosting providers offer the ability to host multiple domains out of the box.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    start with the Hostgator baby croc plan...then if a site takes off...just move it to its own account
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  • Profile picture of the author sunray
    People advise getting reseller account. Well, reseller is actually meant for designers and developers. They can host their clients' websites, give them separate panels etc. It is offering hosting services on a small scale. If you only want to host your own websites, and want more power and options than a shared account, get VPS. You'll get much more for the same money than on a reseller account.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
      Originally Posted by sunray View Post

      People advise getting reseller account. Well, reseller is actually meant for designers and developers. They can host their clients' websites, give them separate panels etc. It is offering hosting services on a small scale. If you only want to host your own websites, and want more power and options than a shared account, get VPS. You'll get much more for the same money than on a reseller account.
      Not necessarily true. Keep in mind that hosting environments for shared & reseller plans are in most cases 5-10 times more powerful than a VPS. For example, each of our shared/reseller nodes have Xeon 1270's, 32GB RAM & RAID 10. A 1GB VPS is not comparable to that. While having isolation is always good, you may actually experience a performance decrease depending on how resource intensive the sites are.

      What you described pretty much only applies when using hosts that claim "unlimited storage/bandwidth" since there's literally no room for resource spikes on those boxes, in turn the limits are stricter & the sites gets suspended sooner.
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      • Profile picture of the author Birdi
        If you plan on building more sites the one .... i personally say get a reseller account with hostgator you can add more sites as you build them plus they have there own indiviual cpanel contorls for each indiviual sites that you host.

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  • Profile picture of the author whland
    What hosting company is NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-? Or am I missing something. I've searched google and couldn't come up with anything. lol

    But as to the question. Most hosting companies will allow you to have more than one site hosted on the same account.

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    • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
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      • Profile picture of the author whland
        Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

        I would never use godady for both domain name and hosting. I buy domains from godadyand host them on Hostgator.



        P.S. I know I spelled godady wrong, but if you spell it correctly, you get NO-NO-NO-NO-NO.
        Oh I see. The forum filters it out? No wonder I couldn't find a host called NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-

        I was thinking. What kind of host is that? What do they want you to do? Stay away from their own company? XD

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  • Profile picture of the author micksss
    It had me confused for a while too. When I figured out that it was an automated change from GoDady (purposely misspelled) to NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- it makes perfect sense. Good move by WF IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by getdong View Post

    I currently run a bunch of blogs/sites on blogger. Thinking about switching to wordpress so A. I may be able to sell some sites off and B. Because you guys recommend owning your own site.

    I'm new to the whole idea of hosting my own stuff since blogger is free and I don't need to. If I run wordpress do I need to pay $4.95 a month for each site I want to host or just buy one package and I can host say 5-7 sites off that one package?

    Also, would you guys recommend I go with NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- or hostgator?
    Whatever you do ... stay away from Go Daddy for hosting. Worst hosting ever. Go with hostgator. One plan for all of your blogs. Cheap, reliable, great customer service.
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