Hosting several sites on one account

[lopdog]

Hi!

First of all, I don´t know if this is the right spot to ask about hosting, but since Techspot has helped me with a lot of computer related problems, I thought I´d give it a try...

Anyways, I´m about to buy a hosting plan from Hostgator, but I want to use one account to host at least 3 different sites (top domains, like firstpage.com, secondpage.com and thirdpage.com). I know the reselling account would be the most effective, but I don´t need to have a different cPanel for each user.

Can this be done with a Baby plan? I´m going to buy domain names from another company, but I guess that doesn´t matter. I´m new to all this hosting stuff, so any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[DelJo63]

that's all up to the hosting site policies - - don't hold your breath.

the Apache2 web server does this with <VirtualHost: ipaddress:80>
see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/

 

[lopdog]

Well, that link was more of a technical answer, but after reading the Hostgator TOS a second time and looking through their forum I found out that the answer is yes. They allow unlimited domains (that's a lot, I wonder if it's true...) on one account, as long as you don't resell the hosting service:

11.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semidedicated Servers
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account.

I find it curious though, that their baby-plan includes unlimited diskspace and unlimited bandwith, and the (much more expensive) reseller plan has limits (50GB diskspace, 500GB bandwith).