Multi Domain Name Web Hosting Explained!

A web site is hosted by domain web hosting providers who standardly allowed only one domain per account. To be able to host more sites, share hosting came into play and this has of course supplies in that area. But then, if you have various sites, which are reporting their unique information many from others, then you will must turn to multiple domain website hosting.

Multiple domain web hosting is where one uses his account to run other mini websites. In other words, since web hosting providers like Hostgator give you an account where you can host your website, you can use the same account, with the same capacity and have other different domains running form the same account. This concept is commonly known as reseller hosting. It should not be confused with domain pointers and redirections.

In multiple domain hosting, a webmaster adds independent domains to his account and each domain has got it's own control panel, PHP, email accounts, CGI/Perl, FTP access, SSI, website statistics and other elements of a domain. No one will ever come to know that you are using one account to run all your websites.

Each account that web hosing providers such as Yahoo Hosting assigns has got a certain capacity, say 2000MB hard disk space and 60GB bandwidth. If you are running five domains, you can decide to distribute this space equally among the five domains that you have or you can also distribute the space depend on the requirements for each domain.

Keep in mind, you will have to purchase the account, but with multiple domain site hosting, then you don’t have to buy another account. Other charges that you might have to pay for each domain in most cases will be deduct so you will end up saving a lot on this type of web site hosting. If your business is not so powerful to spend the way you like, you will demand to save and this is one way you can save but hand over goods and information to your customers.