Your
domain name is your internet address (e.g. SoFreedomains.com) and in order to
get one, you need to get in touch with a domain registrar whose duty it is to
carry out the registration for you. Every year, you will also be required to
pay a renewal fee for the domain. Putting up a website on your domain is
another process entirely and web hosting companies are well positioned to
handle that, if you know a little bit about web designing.
A
web hosting company will sell a hosting package for you which is in line with
the type of website you are floating. A hosting package generally includes file
storage, bandwidth allocation, email allocation, sub-domains allocation, etc. The
package you purchase will determine the sub-domains that will be allocated to
you. For example, if you choose a package that comes with 5 sub-domains, it
means you can create 6 different websites with a single domain.
In
order to be more explicit, let’s say your domain is SoFreedomains.com and your hosting
package comes with 5 sub-domains, then you can create six different websites
with one name as follows;
1. Sofreedomains.com
2. Jobs.Sofreedomains.com
3. Games.Sofreedomains.com
4. Search.Sofreedomains.com
5. Loans.Sofredomains.com
6. Hosting.Sofredomains.com
However,
there are advantages and disadvantages of making use of a domain for more than
one website. One of the advantages is that it is cheaper because you will only
pay for the registration of one domain name and purchase one hosting package
including their annual renewals. In addition, it will be easier for you to
manage the websites (domains and sub-domains) because you are making use of one
platform for their management. Also, a search engine optimization can be
collectively carried out for them since it is only one domain you are floating.
On
the other hand, uniqueness for each site cannot be achieved because they are
all tied to one top level domain (tld). There is limitation to individual
growth because what happens to one will definitely affect the other. For
example, if one of the sites (the main domain or any of the sub-domains) is
receiving a high traffic, it may lead to reduction of bandwidth for others
since the same bandwidth is allocated to all of them. Furthermore, it won’t be
possible to get site metrics for each of the websites because they are tied to
one. For example, an Alexa ranking can only be obtained for the main domain but
it is not possible for the sub-domains. This will not allow you to measure the
traffic of each of them, you will only make use of one ranking for all of them.
