Hosting Plan withAdd-On Domains vs. Reseller Plan…Need Advice Quick

  • Hi,

    I’m starting up a whole new venture that involves building:
    1) My Professional Site (I’m a writer)
    2) Several Affiliate Sites. The affiliate sites will be unrelated to my professional site and unrelated to each other. They will most likely use different themes, some will have datafeeds (probably PopShops or GoldenCan). I expect some of these sites to succeed and some to fail. I’ll end up keeping some, maybe selling one or two (or at least the domains) and letting the others drop.

    I recently signed up for a BabyPlan at HostGator. Unlimited Domains (add-ons). My Professional site is the main domain. The affiliate sites will be add-ons.

    I chose the multi-domain plan rather than a reseller plan because of cost and because I know nothing about reseller hosting plans even if I’m just “reselling” to myself.

    Problem is, it didn’t occur to me that the add-on domains were technically sub-domains. Yes, add-ons have their own registered domain names, but technically it’s still domain2.maindomain.tld.

    I don’t want my professional site associated with the affiliate sites. I don’t even want some affiliate sites associated with some other affiliate sites. With the tools available, anyone can see the sub-domains associated with main domain. Thus, anyone can know all of my business with one click.

    So, what do I do?
    A) Don’t worry about it? A lot of people seem to do it this way and are very successful.

    B) Buy a single plan for the main site and use the add-on domain plan for the affiliates?

    C) Bite the bullet, spend the money, learn the system and get a reseller plan?

    I could really use some help with this quickly as I believe I”m still within my cancellation period with HostGator.

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  • You don’t have to do a thing. Baby Plan supports add-on domains. You need to set it up. Call your host.

    Thread Starter ChgoWriter

    (@chgowriter)

    The thing is, I just signed up for the baby plan. My concern is that with my professional site as the main domain and the affiliate sites as add-ons, anyone with a little know-how will be able to see that my professional site is related to my affiliate sites.

    I’m wondering if switching to a reseller plan or having separate plans might be better. My concern is this: I really don’t want people who use me professionally to be able to find out I also run an affiliate on say, baby clothes. I’m also concerned with ease of use. All those add-ons seem as if they’d be hard to manage.

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