Hosting has evolved and is now much better. I was very very broke when I got into this business over 10 years ago. I paid monthly for my web hosting and dreaded the beginning of the month when I had to send in the next payment. I always had to rethink whether I should even be in this business, because I often didn’t earn enough, or couldn’t scrape together enough to pay my hosting fees.

I know that the fees weren’t outrageous or anything. It was about $15 a month. Laugh if you like, I still had troubles managing my money properly to get it paid. The hosting company would routinely take my sites down until I caught back up with my payments.

On top of that, when I tried to expand my business and create new websites I usually had to tuck them in a folder off the root if my main site and redirect the domain name to that folder. That practice, I found out the hard way, was against the rules of most web hosting providers that I dealt with. Mind you, I was dealing locally, I never even considered buying hosting from a company in a different city or country. Sounds bizarre these days of course.

What’s worse, doing anything to your site required submitting a ticket. As a result it took days to accomplish simple tasks such as adding support for dynamic scripting languages such as ASP, or to change permissions on folders or files.

These days however, things are drastically different. People are buying hosting packages from companies on the other side of the world. We are being billed 1, 2, 3 or more years in advance. People are also hosting all of their websites under just one account and their costs aren’t increasing at all.

I deal with multiple companies now for my hosting needs. One such company, offering unlimited hosting, for less than I was paying for one-site hosting back in the day, is GoDaddy. I also have the ability to administrate a lot of common tasks and most are done automatically for me. Granted, some of the admin stuff was a bit tricky to grasp at first, but it is become very simple with practice. I laid out some simple steps for one of the common tasks which is adding additional web site to your GoDaddy hosting package. Read this article to see exactly how, the process is broken down into simple chunks: Godaddy Multiple Domains On One Hosting Account

Here’s a few GoDaddy discount coupons that might help you get a few bucks off your next purchase or renewal.

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