How To Host Multiple Websites on Single Site Hosting Plan

Learn How to Host Multiple Websites on a Single site hosting plan like GoDaddy 1 Year single site hosting

Godaddy is the world most famous Domain and Hosting Provider. They have many packages for those who wants to host multiple websites i.e VPS, Dedicated Server or Multi Shared hosting. But these are very expensive, Common Man could not afford :(. If you are a starter with not enough money and want to host multiple websites! Don’t worry I have a solution. Here I will tell you how to host multiple websites on Single Site hosting plan :).

In my initial days, I had a tight budget hence single site plan was something which I could afford. But I wanted to create multiple sites because I want to do some experiments. Which I can’t do on a single site. But for that, I have to go with multiple site hosting plan and i didn’t have too much budget or I didn’t want to invest a big amount. But Selecting a good hosting for your money sites is always a big challenge.

Many companies are providing cheap hosting. But a good and highly uptime hosting is surely costly. Godaddy has very good and uptime servers. But as usual, its multiple site hosting plans are kinda expensive. Fortunately, I found a trick from my Cousin Brother (RIP). You may also like to read How to get free Web Hosting with Advertisement Credit.

Note: It is Neither a hack nor an illegal trick. I found this trick as a feature and this feature is provided by each and every hosting Provider :). Here I will give the example of GoDaddy because I am using it. You can use any hosting, this trick will work with every hosting.

Host Multiple Websites on Single web Hosting account:

Use this trick with Godaddy starter plan (first year Rs. 720/one site hosting + free domain). You can use any other hosting provider but GoDaddy is highly recommended.

1. Buy the Godaddy single Web hosting plan.
2. Now you have one Primary Domain let’s say abc.com, which you got from the plan (Free domain).
3. Now buy other domains (as many as you want). You can use GoDaddy here again :).
   let’s assume you bought one domain i.e xyz.com (you can register as many as you want).
4. Now go to your GoDaddy hosting cPanel.
5. Create a Subdomain for your newly registered domain (xyz.com), here I created as xyz.abc.com.
6. Set up your xyz.com website at xyz.abc.com, Do all necessary work i.e install WordPress or whatever you want for your newly registered domain.
7. Now Open your domain panel from where you bought your domain, say GoDaddy itself. There will be 2 options (sometimes 3) custom DNS and domain forwarding/Masking.
8. There are 2 or more options in forwarding:
   1: Forward only/Forward without Masking.
   2: Forward with Masking.
9. Select domain forwarding with Masking.
10. Enter the subdomain on which you made your second website ( xyz.abc.com).
11. Save it and you are done :).

What exactly I did?

Basically, I have pointed xyz.com to xyz.abc.com. Domain name forwarding lets you automatically direct your domain name’s visitors to a different website. But Masking prevents visitors from seeing your domain name forwarding by keeping your domain name in the Web browser’s address bar. You may also like my Trick to Get Premium Hosting free for Lifetime.

Domain Forwarding Example: If you Forward only xyz.com to abc.com then whenever a visitor opens xyz.com he will redirect to abc.com and the content or website on abc.com will show. The Address bar will also be displaying abc.com.

Domain Forwarding with Masking Example: If you Forward xyz.com to abc.com with Masking then whenever a visitor opens xyz.com he will see the content or website data of abc.com but the Address bar will display xyz.com :).

So, by using this method you can host as many as you want websites on a single web Hosting. One more thing for SEO point of view, Never index both domain (sub-domain and actual domain), it may cause duplication. Index only one of your choice.

NOTE: The bandwidth/storage/CPU and other resources will be shared among your main site and subdomains.

Let’s Talk:

So, this is my dirty Trick to host multiple websites on single web hosting package. I hope this will helpful for you and you enjoyed my trick. If you have any question or facing any issue feels free to comment. I will help you deeply to sort out all the problems in this regards.