When I first learned about Internet Marketing, the guru mentioned about operating many websites, this very idea made me think that I need a considerable amount of money.

It is true that many web hosting company will only allow you to host one domain name in one hosting plan. You can see that kind of hosting plans at Godaddy.com Even if you buy the cheapest hosting plan at $3.95/month + $6.90/year for a domain name, you must be prepared to pay $54.30/year. This quickly balloon to big amount if you operate 100 or more websites.

The good news is that there are low cost web hosting company, in fact quite a number of them, offering web hosting packages at reasonable cost while allowing you to host multiple website with their own unique domain names on the same web hosting plan. What you need is a hosting plan that allow add-on domains.

What is an add-on domain?

An add-on domain is a new domain that is added on top of your main domain. It creates a sub directory within yourmain web hosting directory but can show a different web site. The add-on domain collects the information from the sub domain directory using the same space and bandwidth as your main account

Add-on domain benefits.

1. Create multiple domains/websites on the same web hosting account.
2. Save money and web space by using one hosting account instead of several hosting accounts.
3. The add-on domain shares all the same resources (disk space, bandwidth…) with your main site.
4. The add-on domain has its own FTP manager, site stats, cgi-bin which is created automatically.
5. Upload all pages, images, scripts, forums etc to your add-on domain directory.
6. Access your add-on domain using several web site addresses. i.e. http://www.SiteB.com, http://www.SiteB.SiteA.com http://www.SiteA.com/SiteB
7. Promote several web sites within one hosting account with their own set of keywords.

Some web hosting company allow you to host 6,10 and there are even those that allow unlimited hosting of domain names. You still need to pay for domain name registration for every unique domain but the hosting cost is free or already paid for. One such company that I use is Hostmonster. Their system is reliable and the C-Panel control panel is extremely easy to use. You can add more domain names, add email accounts, ftp content to the site and so on….all from the icon driven user interface. Even a newbie like me can do the setup in a breeze.

At Hostmonster, now for only $3.95/month you get 50GB of storage and 999 GB of transfer bandwidth. Best of all, you are also given ONE FREE domain name of your choice. In total you just pay $47.40/year for one site.
What does all those numbers mean to you?

50GB of storage - you can create 10 million pages of text ( assume each page contains 1000 words)

999 Gb of transfer - your visitors can have 200 million page views per month.

Isn’t it mind bloggling that you are given so much resources for just a small sum of money.
Now let’s say your average sites have an average of 10,000 visitors/per day and 3 page views/visitor then that is 0.9 million page views/month. If every one of my site have that many visitors I am very happy.

Armed with these resources, you can easily handle the traffic and storage requirements of 200 sites. (each site have a capacity to hold 50 thousand pages). I think that is more than sufficient for many people.

Finally to the interesting $$$ numbers if you are going to have 200 sites.

• Single Domain Web Hosting yearly cost (200 x 54.3 = ) $10,860 .00

• HostMonster Multiple Domain web Hosting yearly cost ((199 x 6.90) + 47.4 =) $ 1420.50

See the significant differences. You are free to create very topic focused sites without the concern of high hosting cost.

Cheers.