Perfect Strategy for Managing Multiple Websites

If one is making a comfortable living from the Internet and is planning to get success by having several websites then its necessary to follow certain strategy. In reality one’s websites are his/her virtual offices. There is not a single user who doesn’t want that his/her site is up and is operational through out the year.

How to manage Multiple Websites?

The best hosting strategy is that one should host his/her multiple major websites with three to four different hosting companies, and should open a reseller account with another hosting company for small and new websites, web development and backup. The advantage of hosting with several websites is that many hosting companies significantly increases the time and the difficulty of managing sites, and using a single hosting is definitely not considered a good choice.

Factors to consider:

Cost –The first to consider is cost. It is not at all an issue for running a single web site even if costs between $5 and $25 per month as the difference is quite less say of just few hundred dollars or even less per year. It is business policy to utilize single penny so one should avail advantage of every single dollar. A few hundred dollars difference are not enough to either build or destroy a business. If one is running 10 or even 50 websites, then the costs of Web hosting alone will show the result between success and failure of one’s business. In order to reduce the hosting cost, the best option is to use a reseller hosting account to host multiple sites for about $15 per month. One can host one or 2 major websites with one hosting company. With shared hosting, one can just have to spend $10 per month and for dedicated server the cost would be $50 or more every month.

Uptime – Another important factor to consider is uptime. If one’s main business is from his/her website then he/she can’t afford to keep it down even for an hour. There are several hosting companies promising 99.9% uptime, but that is just mere promise. In case a hosting company is doing any update then one’s site could be down for several hours. Generally the time chosen by hosting company for performing this update work is weekend or a major holiday, but it is the time to earn for a holiday site or travel site. Thus hosting with several hosting company is a must in order to avoid this financial as well as psychological loss and pressure.

Application Development – Third important factor is application development. In case of simple web application, webmasters use to do development on the same production hosting site. If one’s ecommerce applications are complicated then doing development on the production site will bring down the live site especially if one is in the process of changing configuration files or installing customized applications. In order to resolve this issue the best option is setting up a website on reseller account for development and testing, and moving the applications to production account on another server after the completion.

Backup - If one is not satisfied with a hosting company, then a hosting company is out of business, or the servers will be down for a day or two. In that case one can easily temporarily or permanently switch from one hosting company to other since one is familiar with the site managing tools. If one is having a backup or secondary copy running on another server, all what is required is to transfer the domain, which is mere a task of single minute.

Finally, choose the best out of rest

To conclude we can say that there are many hosting plans to select from a large number of hosting companies - ASP Web Hosting, Budget Hosting, Dedicated Servers, eCommerce Hosting, FrontPage Web Hosting, Hosting with Templates, Managed Web Hosting, PHP Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Shared Hosting, Unix / Linux Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, Windows Hosting or Co-location Hosting. One should compare the cost, hosting features, tracking records of hosting companies before making the final commitment. So go ahead and enjoy success with your multiple websites!