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Hosting Your Niche Sites Successfully

by circlesquare
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Hey Warriors,

Can anyone share best practices for hosting niche sites... when you're aiming to host like 20-50 different sites?

I've only created 3 sites so far and I've already ran into a snag. I hosted all three of them on a Host Gator account and I found that when I tried to make some RSS feeds from the sites using HTML2RSS that it said it was blocked.

I emailed support and they said that the IP address of the sites was blocked in the past due to abuse. This definitely wasn't me because I've only used HTML2RSS a few times. Support said it was very likely that it was someone else since Host Gator puts hundreds of sites on the same IP address.

Luckily, support said they would unblock the IP address but might have to block it again if the abuse returns.

This seems like a downside of shared hosting... tho shared hosting is the most economical I'm sure.

I'm sure other problems could arise from hosting too many sites on the same IP address or with the wrong hosting company.

Can anyone share their best practices for hosting multiple sites?

Thanks!
#hosting #niche #sites #successfully
  • Profile picture of the author pilotemt963
    I currently have 32 niche sites hosted on hostgator. I have a multisite version of Wordpress installed with a great domain mapping plugin to map all of my domains to the different sites.

    There are a lot of great tutorials on setting this up. I can try and find the one I used initially if you want to go that route.

    Let me know
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    • Profile picture of the author circlesquare
      Originally Posted by pilotemt963 View Post

      I currently have 32 niche sites hosted on hostgator. I have a multisite version of Wordpress installed with a great domain mapping plugin to map all of my domains to the different sites.

      There are a lot of great tutorials on setting this up. I can try and find the one I used initially if you want to go that route.

      Let me know
      Sure, that would be helpful, thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        I have had some success with Just Host and SL Host. I don't have as amny sites on JH that I do with SL, but I have never had any problems to speak of beyind regular tech stuff that just happens sometimes. Pretty solid.
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  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    Well, I have been using Godaddy for many years. A lot of people will tell you that it's no good, as Hostgator pays these nice, fat commissions.

    At Godaddy you can call 24/7 and get a real person at the phone. Sometimes you have to call again, as the first rep just started their job yesterday, but most of the time things are getting resolved swiftly.

    Anyhow, in a shared environment, things can go wrong, but once IP addresses get blocked and it was not your fault and you won't get a new one, something is fishy.
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