get interesting for those of you in the process of setting up multiple mini sites.
Below is a complete description of how you can host multiple websites with multiple domain names for a fraction of the cost as I mentioned in the introduction of this e-book. This solution utilizes only one low cost shared hosting account, Mini Sit Manager and your free Enom Reseller account.

Step 1. Buy your First Domain Name
If you don’t have a domain name yet, buy one. You can take the free offer from one of the hosts but remember the pitfalls mentioned earlier when it comes to having control of your name in the future.

Step 2. Sign up with a Hosting Company
Find a hosting company that you’re happy with, either from the recommended list at http://hagency.com or do your own research utilizing the information above. Ensure the account has plenty of disk space and bandwidth allocation. The more the better for this job!
Step 3. Set up your DNS for your First Hosted Domain Name Ignore this if you purchased your domain name from your hosting company and move on to

Step 4, otherwise please continue.
When you signed up with a Hosting Company, you will receive a “Welcome” email from them containing the details of your hosting account. Always read this email carefully, it will contain information about your mail servers and your all important DNS information and Name Servers. Take the Name Server information you are given, log in to your Domain Name Registrar Account and edit your name servers. Replace the existing Name Servers (which will be your registrars Name Servers) with the ones provided from your hosting company. There should be at least 2 of them.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on your domain name from the list.
2. Under the main “DNS Server” heading click “Change”.
3. On the next page check the box next to “User” and click “Save Changes”
4. Enter the Name Servers Provided by your Host and click “Save Changes”

Once you’ve completed this step it will take 24 to 48 hours for your hosting account to become live and operational. You can check if your account is live by opening up a web browser and going to your domain name. If you see the hosting companies default page, then you’re live. If you see your Domain Name Registrars page or a search page, then DNS has not finished propagating yet.

Step 4. Buy your Other Domain Names
While DNS is updating for your main domain name, purchase any names you want for your websites through your Enom Reseller Account. Obviously you can add to these as you go, but if you have some ideas for the content of your first sites or the products you want to promote, then go ahead and buy the names.

Step 5. Build your Mini Sites
Install Mini site Manager (http://minisitemanager.com) on your web hosting server. Mini Site Manager is a php based system you install on your web server that allows you to easily create unlimited multi-page mini sites with no html coding experience at all. It even sets up your description and keyword Meta tags for search engines, and all the pages generated have Search Engine Friendly URLs for crawlers to index your content easily.

Each mini site is created with its own unique URL. It’s a very easy system to use and nowhere near as complicated as the website creator systems many companies offer. A full installation service is available.

Once installed, create your mini sites and make note of the URLs for each site.

For example: http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm These URLs are automatically generated by Mini Site Manager.

Step 6. Configure your new domain names for URL Framing
Now your mini sites have been created and you have the URL for each site, you can set up the URL Framing. For example: if you purchased a domain name yourcarwebsite.com then you would forward it to http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm which holds your car mini site.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. 1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on the domain name you want to redirect from the list.
2. 2. Under the “DNS Setting (Zone File)” section click “Configure”
3. 3. On the next page change box 1 “www” to record type “URL Frame” and in the address box add your destination URL. Note: Mini Site Manager Users, click the URL Icon and copy the full URL provided.
4. 4. Change box 2 “@(none)” to record type “URL Frame” and in the address box add your destination URL i.e. http://yourfirstdomain.com/Car-Site/1/1.htm
5. 5. Click “Save Changes” At this point you can also set up your email forwards to redirect email from your new domain name to your day to day email account, or to a new account you created with your new hosting company.

For Enom Reseller Account Users:

1. 1. Login to your Enom account, from the menu choose “Domains” >> “My Domains” and click on the domain name you want to redirect from the list.
2. Under the “Email Settings” section click “Change”
3. On the next page check the box next to “Email Forwarding” and click “Save Changes.
4. Add your various email addresses for the domain and in the “Forward To” box add the mailbox you’d like the messages forwarded to.
5. Click “Save Changes” You’re done! You now have hosting and email for multiple unique URLs on one hosting account!!

For any additional domain names you purchase, simply add a new mini site using Mini Site Manager and set up the URL Frame in Enom to redirect to it.

Example: In this case you could redirect yourname1.com, yourname2.com and yourname3.com through to yourname.com, so all visitors to any of your domain names will arrive at your main website.

URL REDIRECTS

http://yourname1.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com
http://yourname2.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com
http://yourname3.com – redirect to – http://yourname.com

Email Forwarding is a perfect way to set up email accounts for a domain name that doesn’t have a hosting account with mail server. In the URL Redirection example above you would most likely have an email server for your main hosting account “yourname.com”. Hoever, you may have users who would send emails to
someone@yourname1.com or someone@yourname2.com. With Email Forwarding allows you to set up “dummy” addresses which would forward any messages received though to your main mailbox.

Example: Let’s say you have 2 main email accounts sales@yourname.com and info@yourname.com. However, you also want people to be able to be able to send emails to sales@yourname1.com and info@yourname1.com. Because you don’t have yourname1.com hosting with its own mail server, you can simply set up 2 email forwards so that any email delivered to sales@yourname1.com is redirected through to sales@yourname.com and info@yourname1.com gets delivered to info@yourname.com as follows:

EMAIL FORWARDS
sales@yourname1.com – forward to – sales@yourname.com
info@yourname1.com – forward to – info@yourname.com
you@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com

With Enom you can create up to 100 different email forwards for each of your domain names. It’s also a useful way of having multiple emails delivered to single mailbox as follows:

EMAIL FORWARDS
sales@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com
info@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com
you@yourname1.com – forward to – youraccount@yahoo.com

URL Framing or Masking functions in exactly the same way as URL Redirection, redirecting your domain name through to another web address, apart from one vital and very useful element.

It maintains the URL in the address bar of the browser. So if you set up URL Framing for the domain name yoursite1.com to be redirected through to http://yoursite.com, using URL Framing the user would still see http://yoursite1.com in the browser address bar and browser title. The fact that they are actually on http://yoursite.com is hidden to the user.

URL Framing is a valuable tool enabling you to save a fortune on hosting your mini sites or basic smaller websites!

Visit Buy Web Hosting, to find a list of very reputable shared hosting companies with different features that will meet any of your needs. None of these companies oversell and have all been in business for some time.

Virtually all of them are under $8 or $10 per month when you pay for a year in advance. If you pay more than that for shared hosting, then you’re being overcharged. Most hosting companies these days also offer high disk space allowances, over 2GB, plus large bandwidth allocations in excess of 50 GB per month. This is clever marketing on behalf of the Hosting Company because these high numbers sound impressive, enticing people to buy. The fact is than an average website uses less than 10Mb of space and very little bandwidth.

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred between your server and your website visitor. So if you have a 100K image file on your website and 10 people view the image, you would have used 1000K (1Mb) of bandwidth. The more people who view your website, the more bandwidth will be used. 10000 views of your image would use 10000 x 100 K = 1 GB.

Hosting Companies rely on the very fact that most of their clients will only use a fraction of their disk space and bandwidth from the huge allocations, but this falls in your favor because they are contracted to give you all of your allowance, and we’ll show you how to take full advantage of this and save yourself a fortune when it comes to your mini-sites.

Apart from your disk space and bandwidth allocations, check out the features offered by each company. If you have web design skills and use applications like Contribute or Front Page to maintain your website, make sure they are supported. If you need a shopping cart, ensure that they include one as part of the package.

Also think ahead to your additional requirements such as email. How many mailboxes will you need? Will your mail be high volume? Will you need auto responders? These are all questions better asked before signing up. Make a list of your requirements, then cross reference your list with the hosts you’re interested in, and see who fits your needs best.

With the competitiveness that exists in the hosting market, many of the top companies constantly run special discount offers such as discounted pricing, free months or increased disk and bandwidth offers. For mini sites that won’t be more than a few pages, and can be easily moved between hosting companies, these offers are perfect because you can utilize them for a year at the discounted price, then move to a new host, and offer, the following year.

It may seem like one of the worlds best kept secrets when you start to ask questions, because most of the people involved, from web designers through to hosting companies themselves don’t want to share their knowledge for fear of losing business, or their fear of people realizing that with a little guidance and help it’s really not as difficult as it’s been made out to be.

With hosting you get what you pay for. If you select a cheap web host, then you’ll get a cheap service with poor support and a web server that crashes more often than your PC at home. Free web hosting should be avoided at all costs. In life nothing is free and rest assured this also applies to website hosting. There will always be a catch, if it’s not forced banner advertising on your pages, then you’ll be signing away your personal information to a gang of spammers or worse still, giving up your website visitors privacy by letting your host track their every move while on your site and beyond. The fact that you’re reading this e-book shows you’re serious about your business.

You’re obviously a professional, so choose a professional host with a service that ensures your website will always be online for your visitors, and more importantly, to ensure you never miss any revenue opportunities because of a cheap host who’s server is continually crashing and costing you valuable sales.

The good news is that it is possible to get a very reliable host with great service and support at a great price and once you have it the details within this Web Hosting Guide in this Blog will give you the knowledge and technical instruction you need to maximize your hosting account and save yourself thousands of dollars every year in unnecessary hosting fees. Here, we’ll give you all the information you need to host multiple websites with multiple domain names with multiple email accounts, for every domain while saving yourself a fortune. Because there’s a list to find cheap yet reliable web hosting plans in buy Web Hosting.

Just as an example, we had a client who wanted to build 100 mini sites for his affiliate marketing campaign. He needed each site to have its own domain name and email ability. Before we met he’d already done his own research into hosting and had found a great deal with a company that allowed him to host 4 domains (websites) per hosting account at $9.95 per month total. So he was going to have to order a total of 25 hosting accounts to handle his 100 website domains. For a twelve month period his total outlay would have been $2985!! That’s almost $250 per month.

After looking at his requirements and the exact information outlined here, we were able to show him a solution enabling him to host all 100 of his sites for a full year for just $46.62. That’s a saving of $2938.38 every year, and over a 3 year period he’ll save almost $9000!! That’s serious money that he can invest into marketing his websites and generating more revenue for his business, rather than flushing it down the toilet on unnecessary overheads.

You can continue reading on Types Of Hosting to get the deeper explanation.

Source: http://hagency.com/ebook/Hosting_Tips_for_Affiliates.pdf

Which hosting option you choose is simply based on how large you can envisage your website getting and how many hits or visitors you predict per month.

Linux/Unix Hosting

Linux/Unix based hosting purely refers to the type of operating system your server is running. From a user perspective it doesn’t really matter other than the fact that Linux is a case sensitive operating system. So if you name a file myfile.htm then you always need to make links go to myfile.htm – MyFile.htm or Myfile.htm will not work! Linux tends to be the most popular option for hosting, and as a result the cheapest, it’s also very reliable.

Windows Platform

This is simply web hosting built on Windows 2000 or 2003 servers. In general Windows hosting is generally more expensive than Linux.
Shared Hosting Shared hosting means that your hosting account is on a server along with multiple other users and their hosting account, so you’re basically sharing the server. This is the most common type of hosting and the most cost effective. You’ll be given a bandwidth allocation (which We’ll explain shortly) and an amount of disk space you’re allowed to use.

Dedicated Server Hosting

As the name implies, this is where you have a whole server allocated for your use. It’s basically your server and you pay for it on a month to month basis. In general, you’re responsible for it, so if you are hacked, infected by a virus or abused by spammers, then you’re on your own for the most part. The advantage is that no one else is using the server so all the resources are yours, as is the disk space and bandwidth. Dedicated servers start at around $99 per month.

Managed Hosting Similar to dedicated hosting, managed comes with a higher price tag but less responsibility. Again you have your own server to use, but you also have a team of support staff on hand maintaining the server, adding updates, patches and generally dealing with any technical issues or intruders.

Co-Location Hosting

Co-Location hosting is becoming less and less common these days as dedicated hosting grows in popularity. This is where you would install your own server at a datacenter and simply rent shelf space and a bandwidth allowance from the datacenter. For the purpose of this e-book, we’ll assume you’re going to use Shared Hosting because you’re just starting out with your sites, they’re probably mini sites and we’re trying to keep costs to a minimum.

Source:http://hagency.com/ebook/Hosting_Tips_for_Affiliates.pdf

And what is Web Host?

Web Host is a company built to provides a storage for its clients web files, this storage or web hosting is able to stores any of web files such as, JavaScript, CSS files, Graphic, HTML files, PHP, Mailing List Service or any files inside your site.

To support storing a web files, web host uses computers that are connected to the internet every day and night 24 hours/7 days. These computers are named servers and they are set Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to be identified or found by other computers that are connected to the internet.

Thus, if you type any web address into your browser address bar and hit the enter button, your browser will immediately send out a request to ‘get’ the web page. The sent request heads for the appropriate web server and tries to to place the the web page on the server. If the request works and success, automatically the web page will load or download into your web browser.

These web hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure and maintain and thus web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a monthly or yearly fee to, at the very least:

1. Web Host, allow you to save your web files to their web server (called uploading)
2. Web Host,  perpetually be ready to serve them up to the internet (make available for downloading)

Web hosting has become a very competitive business and, in order to entice more customers to sign up with them, web hosts now offer all kinds of bells and whistles to the deals or web hosting packages they make available.

Therefore Web Hosting Spaces will try to assist by providing you needed and useful information to find the best Web Host companies for your web site.

These are classified on the basis of the amount of control the user wants to have and degree of the responsibility that the user must share for the smooth and consistent running of their website. Now, strictly talking of Shared server hosting and dedicated server hosting.

Shared Web Hosting
As the name suggest, in shared web hosting many small users upload their website on and run them on same shared server. This is mainly opted by beginners, individuals, and small business and even by organizations. All have very little or low requirement of bandwidth and disk space. This is used when user don’t expect much traffic to flow inn.

In shared web server hosting the whole, maintenance of server and organization of server, software installation, security updates etc is managed by website host provider and they are accountable for this too. They use software like Direct Admin, Helm etc as control panels for the overall governance of the server. Most of the shared web server work for Linux OS only as it has got maximum compatible control panels in the market.

Few web host providers also provide FreeBSD or Microsoft Windows platform too. The best part of this type of service is that it is in great number and so is cheaper too. Not many web hosting service providers are able to provide full facilities of windows web hosting. It can be carried out in either of the two methods i.e. name based or IP based hosting. In name based hosting, many names can be used under single IP whereas, in IP based there is dedicated IP for each website.

Dedicated Web Hosting
As the name suggest, in dedicated web hosting each website is given dedicated web server, no other website can share this under any case. It is used when a user expects to get huge traffic. It has much greater bandwidth then the shared one so is able to handle traffic with much ease. This is also required if you need to have complex app, secure information and customized option in your website.

The dedicated server type hosting allows the user to have 100% control with 100% responsibility to run their website smooth and consistent performance of their website. Due to this reason this type of web hosting requires proper management to monitor and rectify any problem immediately. This type of hosting can be chosen by a professional who needs to have a full control, by big organizations or by the user having commercial website to upload.