Web Hosting Has Gotten Much Better

Hosting has evolved and is now much better. When I first got started in this business, maybe a decade ago now, I was broke. I paid my hosting fees on a monthly basis, as some still do today, but I dreaded the end of the month when the next payment was due. I always had to rethink whether I should even be in this business, because I often didn’t earn enough, or couldn’t scrape together enough to pay my hosting fees.

It’s not hosting cost a ridiculous amount of money. It was about $15 a month. But I still had troubles paying it. Since I was late, my site would be down until I was able to finally pay the bill.

Even worse than that, expanding my business was a joke. If I wanted to branch off into new web sites I wouldn’t be able to afford a separate hosting package naturally I had to put my sites into subfolders and redirect the domains. Most of the hosting companies that I dealt with frowned upon such activity and my accounts were often shut down. Mind you, I was dealing locally, I never even considered buying hosting from a company in a different city or country. Sounds bizarre these days of course.

Plus I had to submit trouble tickets anything I wanted to do anything to my sites. As a result it took days to accomplish simple tasks such as adding support for dynamic scripting languages such as ASP, or to change permissions on folders or files.

These days however, things are drastically different. It’s not uncommon to have your sites hosted in different continents. We are being billed 1, 2, 3 or more years in advance. People are also hosting all of their websites under just one account and their costs aren’t increasing at all.

I have more than one hosting account with more than one company. One such company, offering unlimited hosting, for less than I was paying for one-site hosting back in the day, is GoDaddy. I also have the ability to administrate a lot of common tasks and most are done automatically for me. Granted, some of the admin stuff was a bit tricky to grasp at first, but it is become very simple with practice. One of the most common of the tasks on GoDaddy is to add extra web sites to your unlimited hosting package. Read this article to see exactly how, the process is broken down into simple chunks: Godaddy Host Multiple Sites