$5 per extra domain a month on hosting?
 

Is that good or bad??

With dedicated and a big virtual account you should get unlimited domains IMO

That sucks. An extra domain means a couple of extra lines in the server config file...

Basically, setting up a new domain just takes a minute for your host. They need to enter it into their DNS servers and in some cases create another vhost for you. This makes me wonder why some companies charge monthly fees for additional domain; they only need to set it up once...

Carl

It's a lame way of making a few extra bucks each month.

Er, it depends really.

Hosting a guy on a $15/mo hosting plan, and him wanting 100 different domains to different directory trees is far from profitable. It eats up file descriptors, and is just more shit to maintain should you have to move the sites to a different server or whatnot. It also eats up some CPU cycles for log rotation and stats generation, which if you multiply 50 domains over 100 customers, can actually add up to quite a lot.

However, paying $5/mo per domain when you're actually putting revenue into your host is rather stupid as well.

So, what we do to attempt to keep things fair to all parties, is just require an "average" of $2/domain to be spent. i.e. if one domain uses $200 in traffic, you can have 100 domains total with no extra charges. We're fairly loose on the policy, but it's there as we've found people love to abuse "unlimited" domains.

Of course, dedicated you can do whatever the hell you want. And if you have an idea on how to be billed where we don't take a loss on you we're all ears as well.

But, just trying to offer a counter point to the misperception who say it's "free" to the hosts. It's definitely not completely free, but it also doesn't cost much to keep them around.

So yes, I would say $5/mo is a bit much for an extra domain. ;)

-Phil

Cheers Phil whats your hosting company?

Phil speaks the truth

dedicated rules....

deluxe please get me on icq when you have a chance. :arcadefre