Part 2 - Finding and Setting Up Hosting for Your Private Network
Alright so I said I would follow up with a post about hosting for you guys. The last few days have been crazy with a few personal issues. Not gonna get into that though. This is about setting up a private network.
There is a lot of debate on what the best method is to set up hosting for a network. Some people say use a SEO hosting company. In the past I used that method and had no issues. I won't argue that. All I am going to do is tell you how I do it because I believe it is safer and gives more diversity.
Hosting costs money no matter how you look at it. The best way to find cheap hosting is to look on the threads of this forum, and you can also go to WebHostingTalk and look under their "Shared hosting offers" page. If you look close enough you can find plenty of offers where you can get hosting for $1-3 per month. This is the price range I try to stay in. I also generally get hosting plans that give me a few addon domains or unlimited addons for the plan.
The reason I want addons is because I generally will add 2-3 sites per IP and use them to target other Niches I work. When you get hosting you can usually pay month to month or yearly which comes out to be a cheaper monthly rate. I always check the hosting company I sign up with to see how long they have been in business. I check their whois to see how old their domain is as well to confirm that.
I usually don't use private nameservers but use the ones I am given by the host. In various cases where you make edits to DNS and use private nameservers or change other things around, you can run into issues if your host decides to migrate you to another server.
I know this is a short post, but I will follow up with how to setup the sites in the next post. If you have questions just post them here. If you have anything of a personal nature just PM me and I will do my best to get back with you.