How To Have Several Websites But Pay For Only One Website’s hosting
Many online entrepreneurs these days are faced with the problem
of running several websites and having to maintain several web
hosting accounts for the various sites. Actually there is a very
simple and effective solution to this problem. The answer is to
run sub domains. Although sub domains are very similar to having
a site within a site, they are not simply additional web pages
of an existing website. Each sub domain can have a website of
it’s own and completely separate from the main website.
What is a sub domain?
A sub domain in technical terms will be a folder or subdirectory
located within one domain’s root directory. Usually by looking
at the addresses you will be able to tell that the two websites
are really offshoots from the same thing. Sub domains have
helped many companies prosper on a large scale online as smart
entrepreneurs have established sub domains for various other
businesses that are offshoots of their parent company.
What are the advantages of having sub domains?
There are many advantages of doing this, the first being that a
business can experiment with dozens of other new businesses at
minimal expense, since they will still be paying only one
hosting bill all the time. This means that any new business
started that does not quite work out can quietly be shut down
with minimal trouble or effect. Imagine the pain of having to
shut down a business after only few months when you have taken
the trouble to register a separate domain name and probably even
negotiated a separate web hosting account for a year.
Many times a new online business becomes much easier to
establish and customers get to trust it much quicker if it is
associated to an existing successful business. Sub domain
addresses will usually clearly show a relation to the main
parent company.
What are the disadvantages of having sub domains?
One of the very few downsides of using a sub domain is in the
cases where a new business does not want to be associated with
the parent website for one reason or another. For example the
business could be very different and targeted at a completely
different market such that an association with a parent company
will only bring about confusion in the market.
Still this does not apply to many online entrepreneurs starting
out and even many others who are already established. And
therefore sub domains can be a neat and effective solution to
many problems.
