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Establishing a presence online is easier that it has ever been before. This is primarily because the price for both domain names and web hosting services are at an all-time low.  When choosing a good web host, they provide you with virtually everything you need to build your site and make it accessible on the web in a relatively short amount of time.  However, this is not always the case.  For example, some only allow you to host one domain, which essentially means that you can only run a single website.  For many people, this is not a problem.  On the other hand, if your goals require more than one site, such a hosting arrangement would not be ideal for your needs.  Traditionally, if you wanted to accomplish this you were forced to purchase separate hosting accounts from different providers.  The market has changed in recent times and thanks to multiple domain hosting solutions, you can now conveniently run a multitude of sites from one account.

1.) Friends and Family

There is a lot you can do with multiple domain hosting at your disposal and one of them is creating a fun personal site for friends and family.  Today’s web hosting plans are loaded with great features, many of which can be used to help you set up an appealing website.  With all the free software programs that often come included in a hosting package, you can easily incorporate interactive features such as polls, surveys and beautiful photo galleries complete with high resolution images.

2.) Social Networking

MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are more popular examples, but a multiple domain hosting plan gives you the ability to implement a social networking platform right next to your personal site.  You have so many options here for connecting with your audience and significantly expanding your web presence.  A powerful web hosting solution will give you the tools needed to create a blog, community forum or an informative portal where you keep readers up to date with the latest news.  With all the open-source CMS products on the market, you have what it takes to actually build your own social network that rivals some of the biggest commercial sites.

3.) Online Business

The types of users reaping the most benefits from multiple domain hosting is online business owners.  The power and potential of the internet has been proven and because of this, every company should strongly consider moving their business online.  Hosting plans on the market are very business friendly with features such as multiple email accounts, fully integrated mailing lists, FTP access and several other tools that can be very useful for your business endeavors.  And thanks to all the free shopping carts available, you can set up an online storefront and truly making an impact in e-commerce.

Conclusion

There is so much that can be accomplished by have the having the freedom to run multiple domains and these are just a few ideas.  It is a cost effective arrangement that can help you kill two, or in this case, at least three birds with one stone.

When you start a project, shared or dedicated servers may seem perfect to suit your requirements. You host your website, email accounts and database on one server and kick start your online business.

As your business grows, more and more things may be needed from your web hosting. Instead of 10 email accounts, now you need 50 or more emails because your team has grown. You might require Virtual Private Networks to stay connected with your team members around the clock.

More importantly, you cannot afford a second of down time. Consistency, uninterrupted service, back up and recovery are factors that you need in order to offer seamless service to your customers.

Clustered load balanced hosting is what you need to manage and synchronize all your web activities effectively. This type of hosting is often referred as complex hosting. Though the technology is complex, there is nothing to get panicky with regards to technical complexities. Rest assured that your hosting service provider will help you set up your multiple dedicated servers in clustered and load balanced format where needed.

Benefits of clustered hosting

Clustered hosting eliminates the limitations of shared hosting. It allows your website to connect with multiple servers by virtualizing the resources. As a result your website accesses the processing power of multiple servers; and multiple server applications are distributed in real time.

By using the power of clustered hosting you can keep your website live 24×7. When one server experiences technical faults, there are many more to back you up. This is the reason many webmasters shift to complex hosting from a dedicated server as their businesses grow.

Why load balancing is done

Load balancing helps to achieve optimum response time, throughput and resource utilization. By distributing loads among multiple nodes, you can reduce redundancy and increase reliability.

In complex hosting load balancing is done programmatically. A software program is used to keep track of requests and available resources so that loads can be spread in the most efficient possible way.

By using the power of clustered load balanced server you ensure seamless, faster and more reliable services for your customers. Reputed service providers offer a full range of support including firewalls, SAN devices and everything required for complex web hosting.

If you intend to set up some special kind of server network, talk to your service provider. Renowned hosting companies help their clients to set up custom server networks as well.

By this article one can get to know about the technology used in multiple server hosting as well as how to utilize it to maximize one’s site and security and uptime

Now the hosting of site has converted into a commodity where competition has raised to a very higher level and it’s very difficult to discriminate among the hosting plans on the basis of core plans, features and prices. Moreover choosing a host based on the cheapest price is not a better idea rather it thereafter proves to be very expensive in terms of reliability as well as possible loss of sales as a result of website downtime.

Choosing a best out of thousands of providers and resellers is a very scary task, which is rather based on hit and trial method. Even if hosting has become a commodity still while choosing for new host one should look for reliability.

Now at the heart of any hosting company’s reliability is redundancy. Redundancy offers an alternative remedy in case any problem occurs. This is to ensure continuity of work as seamlessly and transparently as possible.

There are several hosts, which employ redundant network connections. These are the high-speed pipes that route data from the server to one’s web browser. As against this, redundant ‘multiple web servers’ are quite rare and expensive and so are rarely used. They are expensive due to use of costly routing equipment, which has previously been used, only in mission critical applications of Fortune 500 companies.

There is yet another very neat but little known Domain Name Server (DNS) feature called ’round robin’ which allows the selection and provision of a particular IP address from a ‘pool’ of addresses when a DNS request arrives.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) database maps a host name to their IP address. Thus instead of remembering a vast series of numbers (IP address) one can just type in his/her web browser www.mydomain.com, to get to one’s website.

Now in order to publicize DNS info throughout the market it will typically take minimum 2 to 3 days. That is the reason when one registers or transfer a domain name it isn’t immediately available to the person browsing the web.

This delay has foiled the security benefits of hosting one’s site on multiple servers, as the site would be down for a couple of days in case of any problem with one server. As a remedy one has to change his/her DNS to reflect the second server and has to wait for several days before the change was picked up in routers on the Internet.

There is yet another solution for the above problem i.e. the round robin DNS strategy that solves this quandary, by mapping one’s domain name to more than one IP address.

One should now select that hosting companies which employs the DNS round robin technique in conjunction with’failover monitoring’.

The DNS round robin fail over monitoring process starts by a web hosting company setting up one’s site on two or more independent web servers. Thus one’s domain name will therefore have 2 or more IP Addresses assigned to it.

Thereafter the fail over monitor watches one’s web server(s) by dispatching data to a URL one specifies and looks for particular text in the results. Now when an error is returned from one of an IP address, it pulls that IP address out of the list. The DNS thereafter points one’s domain name to the working IP address/s

In case any of the user’s IP’s come back online they are restored to the IP pool. This helps in effectively and safely keeping one’s site online even if one of the web servers is down.

In this case an average failure detection and recovery time with a system is very low with just 15 minutes. However this time varies depending on site’s speed as well as the nature of the failure and also how long other ISP’s cache (save) one’s DNS information.

The time taken for other ISP’s caching one’s information can be manipulated in the fail over monitor by lowering the “time to live” (TTL) cache settings. These are the settings used by other ISP’s in order to determine how long to cache one’s DNS information.

One must also keep in mind the matter of how frequently data is synchronized between his/her website’s servers. Now this comes under the hosting company’s responsibility, and this becomes complicated where databases and user sessions are involved.

The most elegant solution to multi server hosting is very expensive hardware based fail over monitoring systems that point a virtual IP address to other ISP’s, while behind the scenes juggling a number of unique IP addresses on different servers.

This way, the whole issue of ISP’s caching one’s information does not come into play.

Thus in order to get 99.99995% uptime, without spending big amount of money, the technology is readily available and certain proprietary failure monitoring systems are now relatively cheap to apply.

Getting hosting for multiple domains used to be quite difficult, and many webmasters, including me, ended up with single domains scattered around various hosts. Now, many of the top hosting services offer multiple domain web hosting as an option. This means you can create a set number, or an unlimited number of sites under one hosting plan, for a set monthly price. Often this price is little more than the cost of hosting a single site.

Sometimes, people really want multiple domain pointing – the hosting of many domains which simply redirect to the one important domain with content. We will also give a source for this below.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of hosting many domains on one host, under one plan? Let’s look at the advantages first.

Advantages of multiple domain web hosting

1. Price

The price is the main attraction for most people. For one reasonable monthly payment, you get to host a set number, or an unlimited number, of domains. If you pay an annual fee, the cost for all your hosting is fixed for the year.

2. Marketing

If you have an idea for a web site, it takes only a few minutes to buy a suitable domain (better to buy this from a separate domain registrar) and then set up a new site on the multiple domain web hosting service. You can implement web marketing ideas quickly, and respond to trends and seasonal demand with no extra cost, except that of the domain name. If you are involved in affiliate marketing, you can create a site for each product area, or even a site dedicated to selling the products from your favorite merchant. You don’t need to load up a single web site with multiple product lines, confusing the search engine spiders, and confusing your customers as to what your site is about.

3. Maintenance

You only have one host to visit to do all your site maintenance. Once you have learned how to install a blog, or a forum, or a shopping cart, you can do it again on your other sites much more easily.

Disadvantages of multiple domain web hosting

1. Single IP address

You will usually have all your sites under the same IP address, usually shared with others; depending on who you believe, this may mean the search engines discount link value. In other words, any high PR site you manage to get may not pass on link juice to other sites on the same server. If other sites on the same server are considered spammy, your site may suffer by IP address association.

2. Down time affects all your sites at once

If your host goes down due to hardware failure, or for maintenance, all your sites are not available at the same time. If you are earning your living from your sites, this could be very bad news.

3. Unlimited bandwidth

Why should this be a problem? Not all multi-site hosting services offer this, but it is generally agreed in the hosting industry that offering unlimited bandwidth is not a viable business model long term, since all bandwidth has to be paid for eventually. If all your sites are on one multiple hosting service and that service collapses due to financial problems, you are in trouble. However, this is your call.

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