Managing a whole network of sites

[hdpt00]

I currently have about 4 content sites and I make around $XX-$XXX per day. It’s enough for some extra spending cash, but certainly not a lot by any means. I've been doing more research on more sites to start and figure there are about 6 more content sites I want to start for right now and about 10 affiliate sites.

I don't mind buying $9 domains for each site, but paying monthly hosting fees is getting to be a significant charge. Sure I make it back in one day, but I must be going about this wrong. I currently use two hosts so every site has a different class C IP in case I want to interlink someday. I use the minimum packages they offer so it ends up being like $9/month per site.

Is there a better way to go about web hosting, paying $40/month for hosting 4 content sites with 4 separate accounts seem like I may be missing something.

I was thinking it may be wiser to go with a host that can offer static IPs for any domain I have. Open 1 larger account for like $25/month and put all the domains in that account. Then I have subfolders for ach domain, such as:

/folder1 -> www.domain1.com (own static IP)
/folder2 -> www.domain2.com (own static different class C IP)

etc. Is this possible, can anyone recommend something?

[disgust]

look into a dedicated host.

I've got a dozen odd sites, I use 400 gigs of bandwidth a month, and I'm not touching my limits.

I get 1.2TB of bandwidth a month, 80 gig hd, a gig of ram, and a 2.4ghz cpu. 79$ a month.

[spike2131]

I'd recommend a virtual server. It acts just like a dedicated host, but its not really its own computer - its just a slice of another computer that runs an operating system as if it was independent. I pay $20 a month for mine and run half a dozen domains on it.

As in the setup you described, I keep each site in its own directory - they run as virtual hosts sharing the same ip address. I could get different IPs if I wanted to.... not sure if a different class C would be available or not.

[fidibidabah]

Yep, for a smalltime boy, exactly what spike said.

Just make sure the control panel is nice a simple, and you don't have to call support everytime you want to add new domain forwarding (cpanel x with a few additional moduals will generally suffice).

[gomer]

I was thinking it may be wiser to go with a host that can offer static IPs for any domain I have. Open 1 larger account for like $25/month and put all the domains in that account. Then I have subfolders for ach domain, such as:

/folder1 -> www.domain1.com (own static IP)
/folder2 -> www.domain2.com (own static different class C IP)

etc. Is this possible, can anyone recommend something?

Yes, this is certainly possible. Separate sites under different folders each with its own static IP with a different class C is the way to go.

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[chrisgarrett]

Not many ISPs will put two IPs from very different class's on one box though most will allow you to rent an additional static IP in the same class. It will only be the better or larger hosting companies that have the infrastructure to do what you really need for interlinking (if the paranoid are to be believed) which is hosting that is undetectable as the same source. I guess it comes down to how different do they need to be?

I actually right now do not see much evidence in my field they need to be different at all. Without naming names I can't make all that good a picture but a good 90% of the better "---widget---" sites are hosted by one company so presumably using IPs identifyable as same owner. They ALL link to each other and all have decent results and pass and display toolbar PR, yada. There obviously isnt a blanket rule for all industries else my entire field would have been nuked long back :)