Buying & Managing dozens of hosts

[schockergd]

Maybe this has been talked about before, but here goes.

Is there a efficient way to sign up with say 50 or 100 different hosts (worldwide) and manage them through one interface? I would like to get multiple hosting accounts setup to expand my blog/website network to lower the footprint. Unfortunately as it stands the only way I see to do that is to hire a VA to manage all the individual accounts and from my estimates would cost more than it would be worth.

Any advice on any potential tool/method to do this easily would be appreciated.

 

[matt3]

ummm I can't edit because of some shit called incapsula? Awesome

 

[shawnhag]

why not just buy a dedicated with IPs from all over? manage all cpanels thru whm etc

 

[ShadowCaster]

Outsource it to India?

 

[golan]

why not just buy a dedicated with IPs from all over? manage all cpanels thru whm etc

Please a bit of advice to poor peasant: how you can get IPs from all over to your dedi?

 

[formosaz]

if you need so much how about buying seo c class IPs ?

 

[schockergd]

Google can see SEO C class IPs resolving to the same host (And from what I hear they're penalizing SEO hosts) I'm pretty sure i See this with some of my low end spammed to death hosts that offer cheap IPs.

 

[cheshire]

It is tough to manage. I just make a spreadsheet that shows me which domain is on which host along with nameservers, IP addresses, etc... Then I create a folder on my bookmark bar called "Servers" and I name the bookmarks Server A, Server B, Server C. Set firefox to automatically fill in the login details.

So I need to make a change to domain43.com I pop open my spreadsheet and see domain43.com is on Server C. I click my bookmarks, login to Server C and make any changes necessary.

 

[cousinvinnie]

This is pretty much why we brought out our seo hosting service after only offering it for our seo clients for years. There was no easy way to buy, manage, update and handle the day to day of a large network without a group of outsourcers. Now we do it under i setup and the ip's are all spread out all over the US.

 

[malloc]

Google can see SEO C class IPs resolving to the same host

How would that be true? What uniquely identifies the server besides the IP address?

This is a timely question for me

I was considering using my own, caching proxies.

 

[thenrrrd]

Look into DevOps stuff - Chef, Puppet and so on. It's good for this problem.

 

[mands1833]

I use Microsoft One Note (away from the eyes of Google) and if you setup stuff and use Lastpass it isn't that hard. Granted, I don't have 100 of private sites for my blog network, just a couple hundred money sites.

 

[-joe-]

It's a bastard, especially if Paypal decides one day it'll be fun to freeze your account, killing all recurring payments.

 

[jumpinjack]

If you're using WordPress, check out InfiniteWP - Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

It's free and it's good.

 

[After Penguin]

Try cloakhosting.com
All can be done from one control panel

 

[society]

There's rarely a need to mess with the actual cpanel on the hosting accounts so +1 for InfiniteWP.

 

[HeadStartSEO]

From personal experience: managing a network of 500+ cheap hosts is WAY WAY WAY more costly than SEO hosts. These boards have been naysaying SEO hosts for years and I've NEVER had a problem. Not once.

Otoh, trying to manage unique accounts, billing, and customer service / support people for domains split between 500+ hosts is a fucking nightmare. It may look cheaper and safer up front, but it's not. It's just not.