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Of course that all depends on the amount of traffic the sites get.
imo you are looking at it the wrong way, if you are making enough money from a domain then the costs involved whatever they may be don't matter.
its like the "how much do you make from adsense" thread running at the moment -
answer: so what! unless you also compare it to the costs of earning that money then the earnings figure is of no consiquence and meaningless.
imo you are looking at it the wrong way, if you are making enough money from a domain then the costs involved whatever they may be don't matter.
OTOH, if you're just starting out and have no capital, tossing an extra $25 at each new experiment does rather tend to quash experimentation. That goes double if there's a limit on the number of experiments you can run.
Also, why waste $25 if you don't have to? That's an extra $25 per domain per year that you could put into development, or links, or your savings account. It adds up when there are a lot of domains in play.
A lot of sites don't use a huge amount of bandwidth. Maybe a GB or two each month. If those are the kinds of sites you will be making, then you could cram in a *ton* of sites into a reseller account with a budget host.
It all depends on what type of sites you are planning on making. If you have bulky sites that task server resources, you won't be happy with a budget host. But if you have less taxing sites that don't need a lot of disk space, a budget host might be all you need. At least until you achieve total world domination! ;-)
There are some reliable but "budget" web hosting companies that will host unlimited domains for $15-40 a month. You can squeeze in as many domains as you can with the disk space and bandwidth they allow you. (I know of at least one pretty good host that offers 100-150 GB of bandwidth within the price range I quoted.)
Could you sticky me the name?
If you have bulky sites that task server resources, you won't be happy with a budget host. But if you have less taxing sites that don't need a lot of disk space, a budget host might be all you need.
Most of them will be low-graphics sites with a lot of server side includes, so a budget host would probably be fine if the SSI doesn't put too much of a load on it.
At least until you achieve total world domination! ;-)
When I achieve total world domination, the Internet as we know it will cease to exist. Except for that ninja site. And the Peeps experimentation site. And the sites of anyone who toadys up to me entertainingly enough. But everything else? IT WILL BE MINE!
First task after world takeover: Copyedit the Web.
