Hosting question - Several websites on one plan?

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Guys do you always use hosting plans, that allow for several or unlimited websites? Like Bluehost Plus?
I'm confused about sub-domains and if it may affect the top domain.

I just want to run several blogs, where the domains aren't conflicting in any way and aren't associated with each other..

Is it OK to use Bluehost Plus for several websites in several niches with different domain names or is it only relevant if I want to have sub-sites to my 1 main site?
Or is it better to buy the cheap hosting plan for every single domain?
Might be a stupid question to some of you, but I'm confused about the whole sub-domain thing
 
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I don't know how bluehost works, but if it works like 99% of the hosting providers then yes, you can host unlimited websites and unlimited sub-domains on the same server without conflicting with each other.

Now, if you want to create a PBN (Private Blog Network) with those domains... that's a whole different story and you don't want all of your domains on the same server (IP). And in this case you'd need different IPs (usually from different hosting providers).
 
tazarbm said:
I don't know how bluehost works, but if it works like 99% of the hosting providers then yes, you can host unlimited websites and unlimited sub-domains on the same server without conflicting with each other.

Now, if you want to create a PBN (Private Blog Network) with those domains... that's a whole different story and you don't want all of your domains on the same server (IP). And in this case you'd need different IPs (usually from different hosting providers).
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Alright, so Google crawls it like a normal domain, even if it's a sub-domain?

So I can have website 1 about golf and website 2 about food - and it'll be no problem at all?

(I have no interest in PBN, only whitehat)
 
korbes said:
Guys do you always use hosting plans, that allow for several or unlimited websites? Like Bluehost Plus?
I'm confused about sub-domains and if it may affect the top domain.

I just want to run several blogs, where the domains aren't conflicting in any way and aren't associated with each other..

Is it OK to use Bluehost Plus for several websites in several niches with different domain names or is it only relevant if I want to have sub-sites to my 1 main site?
Or is it better to buy the cheap hosting plan for every single domain?
Might be a stupid question to some of you, but I'm confused about the whole sub-domain thing
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do remember than, even if they allow for unlimited domains, the resources of the hosting are what they are. that means that if the hosting can support up to 25 concurrent visitors, that's what it does, wherever you have 25 visitors in 1 domain, or 1 visitor in 25 domains. you don't suddenly get more resources because you have more domains (as far as i know)
 
korbes said:
Alright, so Google crawls it like a normal domain, even if it's a sub-domain?

So I can have website 1 about golf and website 2 about food - and it'll be no problem at all?

(I have no interest in PBN, only whitehat)
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yeah, man, we all have most of our websites on the same hosting plan. Different domain names are treated differently by the entire internet, don't worry about it :)

Now, if you were to have a website... say.... korbes.com and on this website you would have these sub-domains:

cars.korbes.com
golf.korbes.com
food.korbes.com
...
etc.

Google would treat each one of those sub-domains differently and would probably rank your food sub-domain higher than your root domain (korbes.com) for food-related keywords because it's more relevant to that niche. And the same would happen with the other sub-domains (cars.korbes.com would rank higher than korbes.com for automotive-related terms, golf.korbes.com would rank higher than krobes.com for golf-related terms, and so on),

And even people (not just google) would treat the sub-domains differently because they are all different.

And if you had 3 other domains besides korbes.com, let's say korbescars.com, korbesgolf.com and korbesfood.com then each one of these domains would be treated differently to korbes.com, as well.
 
This is EXACTLY the MAIN question what I've been searching for, but with Namecheap
 
tazarbm said:
yeah, man, we all have most of our websites on the same hosting plan. Different domain names are treated differently by the entire internet, don't worry about it :)

Now, if you were to have a website... say.... korbes.com and on this website you would have these sub-domains:

cars.korbes.com
golf.korbes.com
food.korbes.com
...
etc.

Google would treat each one of those sub-domains differently and would probably rank your food sub-domain higher than your root domain (korbes.com) for food-related keywords because it's more relevant to that niche. And the same would happen with the other sub-domains (cars.korbes.com would rank higher than korbes.com for automotive-related terms, golf.korbes.com would rank higher than krobes.com for golf-related terms, and so on),

And even people (not just google) would treat the sub-domains differently because they are all different.

And if you had 3 other domains besides korbes.com, let's say korbescars.com, korbesgolf.com and korbesfood.com then each one of these domains would be treated differently to korbes.com, as well.
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Okay great!
It'd also be insanely expensive if I had to buy a new hosting plan for each website :D
Thanks for your thorough answer.

I think it's kinda weird that hosting has to be so complex sometimes with DNS, subdomains etc.
It needs to be modernized and simplified a lot, but again maybe that's what keeps people away from starting a successful website sometimes, so maybe it's good for the competition =)
 
B17zr said:
This is EXACTLY the MAIN question what I've been searching for, but with Namecheap
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Hope you found the answer in this thread then :)
 
I only buy reseller hosting plans when it comes to shared hosting. This way each website/domain has it's own separate account. If something happens to one website it doesn't effect my other sites. With a reseller account you have one reseller login that you can use to control every account and you also have individual usernames/passwords for each account if you have clients.
 
MaestroDelWeb said:
I only buy reseller hosting plans when it comes to shared hosting. This way each website/domain has it's own separate account. If something happens to one website it doesn't effect my other sites. With a reseller account you have one reseller login that you can use to control every account and you also have individual usernames/passwords for each account if you have clients.
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This is the answer. Cloud and Clustering are also options but that is basically just doing the job of your host. If there is no need for this, again, a reseller account is the answer.
 
korbes said:
Okay great!
It'd also be insanely expensive if I had to buy a new hosting plan for each website :D
Thanks for your thorough answer.

I think it's kinda weird that hosting has to be so complex sometimes with DNS, subdomains etc.
It needs to be modernized and simplified a lot, but again maybe that's what keeps people away from starting a successful website sometimes, so maybe it's good for the competition =)
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yeah, in the beginning it's weird. I was as lost as you when I first started with making money online in 2008 and had to read a lot and watch many tutorials on how websites operate, but within a year I started liking playing with the cpanel (where most magic happens between you and your website). You will get used to it, too in time :)
 
The unlimited number of website is limited my how many inodes you can create.
When you do the math you are limited to 30-50 wordpress websites on a unlimited plan.
It's a little secret hosting companies don't want you to know until you sign on that dotted line
 
Web hosting companies run hundreds of websites on the same IP on shared hosting plans. You can check all sites hosted on the same IP as yours by googling reverse IP Lookup on your server IP.

Having multiple sites doesn't matter as long as you don't hit resource limits like inodes, RAM & CPU. If you do you will either have restrictions on your account or email from the host asking for an upgrade.
 
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I used to do that, hosting several new websites during the development phase. then move the 'ready one' to a new host. a reseller plan is also a good option for this.
*I am talking about several websites/domains, not subdomains.
 
Word to the wise, I'd steer clear of Bluehost. They are incredibly shit now with awful support. I've been using Siteground for the past few years and always been happy with the support I've received. I recently renewed my hosting, but did some delibertate damage to a dummy website to test if there had been any change to the support. They fixed the cock ups in about 20 minutes which is nothing short of impressive. Said fix was not restoring a backup btw.
 
Is it OK to use Bluehost Plus for several websites in several niches, as long as you don't link each other website, or it may appear as a PBN and get you a penalty from google. Also, in technical terms, it depends how much traffic you get, if all are websites with high traffic, all sites will slow down (as you share resources on the same server), but for starter sites, you can go ahead. Then possibly move a one site to independent and separate hosting, once it grows big.
 
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