If you rely on a virtual private server as your hosting strategy for your website to host your content what you write for your general audience, or you were adding your self-hosted ad server to host your ads, you can keep your website residing inside your virtual private server. This is important to keep your website running with a stable resource. If you were planning on running a second website for your users who were older than children, and you are providing content to read on a weekly basis like episodes on TVs… you can use this strategy to host your second website.
Why Implement a Shared Server Setup Alongside Your VPS?
Say if… you are running a WordPress site that is ither a multisite, or individualized instances of WordPress, and you offer free content to read for your audience. Your site is either supported by ads, or your website is supported by a donation button via PayPal, or LiberaPay. You schedule posts what you write yourself, and you write various topics on a daily basis, and you used your schedule strategy as a way to ensure your content can be read for months/years to come.
You got so many visitors visiting your website, and reading your relevant posts what you write as a series, or as a normal blog with multiple topics. However; you kept growing your blog, and you wanted to ensure your content is diverse as possible.
If you have an ad server software on your VPS via a subdomain, and you implemented your own ad-serving system to cut back on ad networks; you can host your own ads like an independent seller for your ad zones.
And speaking about an ad server; setting up your secondary hosting plan that is essential for running either any of these websites:
- HTML-Based Text-Adventure Game – Use this strategy to host your own text-adventure games for your customers to play these games what you make yourself, or if your team has implemented this strategy to ensure text-based games are available to play. HTML pages load faster, and they don’t rely on PHP, SQL, or other software that is required to run on a shared server. You can still make ad-supported games to monetize your games what you make yourself.
- HTML-Based Content (General Content) – If you are a coder who codes in HTML like a skilled coder, and you write in this code exclusively, you can use this shared server to share your content to your visitors who visit your website. However; if your content is supported by ads; you need to ensure privacy is taken very seriously. Putting too many ads on your website can cause your visitor’s borwsers to slow down. Two ad units per page works the best. However; most website owners who prioritize profit often abuse use of these ad networks. According To Google AdSense; 3 ad units works the best per each webpage, and choosing a right size for your ads to be displayed is essential for these banners to display properly.
- Lightweight content – If you only write lightweight content on your blog, and you only use your VPS to host your images, or other media; you can use your secondary server to host lightweight content. Most website owners often put too much content on their servers, and clutter them overtime. Well, I am still doing my decluttering experiment on my multisite what I’m currently running. If you are a fiction writer who only writes in text; you can use this strategy to target your audience who prefer to read text-based content on your other website.
- Separate Blog – You can use this strategy to run a separate blog. For this instance; your primary website has a theme that focuses on fairies. If you have a mermaid theme for a separate website, you can host your different blog for people who want to read posts that focuses on mermaids, and ocean-based themes.
- Search Engine – You can run your search engine for the purpose of enabling your customers to perform searches for content that is relevant. Blackle is one example of a search engine that uses a Google CSE to run their search engine that does all of the heavy lifting. However; your website like this can have so many visitors who wanted to use your search engine. If you have advertisements to monetize your website; you can ensure your site can stay free as possible.
To Implement This
Follow these steps to implement a shared server for your next website:
- Ensure you have enough revenue to run a secondary server (shared server) – Always check if you have enough funds for your secondary website by looging into your banking account of a bank what you do business with. Depending on your hosting plan, always start from a smaller plan.
- Order a Shared hosting plan from GreenGeeks – Go to GreenGeeks, and log into your account. Order a shared hosting plan, and place in your domain of choice.
- Set Your Server – Customize your server as you start your separate website.
- Build your website like usual – If you’ve already written your content that is saved to your computer; publish your posts with a schedule. This is useful for upcoming visitors to visit your website. You can implement these essential pages to ensure you take privacy very seriously; this is necessary if you run ads on your website. If you have an existing adserver via your VPS; implement them wisely.
- Test your website on a regular basis – This is necessary to ensure your website is working properly.
- Ensure spammers don’t spam your comments section of your website; if you like; you can turn off a commenting feature to ensure you don’t get any spam comments.
Why Separate Servers?
This is ideal for keeping your websites sorted, and figure out which site is generating revenue.
Diversify your hosting strategy – This is useful for diversifying your websites what you currently owned.
My thoughts of having 2 servers is like owning 2 buildings.