Alternative option to using reseller hosting?

[signia]

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Hi,

I've read that if you want to host a good number of domains, then the cheapest way to do it is to buy a reseller hosting account.

My current hosting provider, with whom I also have all my domains, (who are excellent by the way and give personalised customer support at 11pm on a Friday night!) don't offer reseller hosting.

They have suggested that one of the hosting packages I have allows you unlimited subdomains and I can use that. They use advanced domain redirection so that 'www.123.com' will point to 'www.123.myhostingpackagedomain.com' so essentially 'virtual domain hosting'

Also 'www.123.com/food/biscuits.htm' will actually be linking to 'www.123.myhostingpackagedomain.com/food/biscuits.htm'

The user will see all links and pages reading as 'www.123.com/etc/etc' all my links will be 'www.123.com/etc/etc'

My questions are,
(1) although the user will not know of the 'myhostingpackagedomain.com' bit, will google be able to work that out?
(2) will it matter if google works it out? I've read somewhere that google treats subdomains separately, and read elsewhere that it doesn't. Of course, I won't want my domains to be ranked based on eachother's rankings!

I do have the option of course to just buy a reseller hosting package and point all my domains there. But I've already paid for three years of hosting on one domain which has unlimited subdomains.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[wonder_lander]

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[pedigreechump6]

Thanks wonder, I've been thinking about moving my sites from their current host for quite a long time now because of reliability problems and Tsohost's cloud hosting looks like one of the best solutions for me so far.

[nickynoodles]

My questions are,
(1) although the user will not know of the 'myhostingpackagedomain.com' bit, will google be able to work that out?
(2) will it matter if google works it out? I've read somewhere that google treats subdomains separately, and read elsewhere that it doesn't. Of course, I won't want my domains to be ranked based on eachother's rankings!

You should check how your host is actually cloaking. Use one of the Firefox plugins to see the headers:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

If it looks like a normal http request, they're probably doing it with mod_rewrite on the server side and you should be fine Google wise.

However, use .htaccess to 301 widgets.maindomain.com back to widgets.com, assuming this doesn't create a loop, otherwise you'll get your site indexed twice.

Edit: Also check that there's no framing going on by viewing the source.

[signia]

Thanks guys, advice appreciated.

Just tested it out with wordpress though, and because wordpress is installed to the "real" folder that the subdomain is pointing at, all my wordpress links are showing the subdomain to the user! It's not being framed but it does keep the right url in the display.

It should work if I build a site from scratch and use all "direct" urls in the site, but all in good time.

Might look at that cloud hosting. Heard good things about fasthosts and heart internet's reseller packages too.

Thanks again.

[scriptmonkey]

Heard good things about fasthosts

Don't believe a word of it. Avoid them like you'd avoid a rabid dog.

[Jean]

I have a couple of reseller accounts with Meirhosting. Never had any problems, and the support is second to none.

[Lawcom]

Why would you have a couple of reseller accounts ?

http://www.webhosting.uk.com/ have an enterprise set up, unlimited domains for £2.29 per month...

It works and service is great for the price..

[tulipkiya]

Nop, i recommend you should buy some dedicated reseller hosting ..

some thing like from hostgator or just host...

they will be having Cpanel whm installed for you so that..you can differentiate...each account for each domain

in this way google will never know you host domain on same server...inspite of only one thing the

all your domains are having only one ip address..but that is fine with every one...

Good luck