Host Multiple Domains under the same Hosting Account - Go Daddy and Wordpress example

Setting up multiple websites with different domains does not need to be expensive. There is no reason to buy a new hosting plan for every single domain you wish to set up. With just one web host plan, you can easily set up multiple websites using different domain names. All you have to know is how to do it!

This will guide you on how to set up multiple domains under the same host using Go Daddy. I prefer Go Daddy as it is a webhost and domain provider with great pricing and service. The below steps could work with other providers, however the host manager may look different and steps would differ.

1. First step is to buy web hosting with unlimited websites featured. My preference is Go Daddy.
Example: 

Deluxe hosting is enough for someone who wants 25 websites or less under the same host. The Deluxe hosting also has unlimited space and bandwidth. Go Daddy sells hosting for 50% a lot of times so it makes it very affordable. The price does change due to this, so you can click here to view the current price.

2. You then need to buy domain/s. At the moment I have 3 under my webhost with Go Daddy (and counting!) Domains are very affordable and I like to keep everything in the same place for convenience.
Example:

3. Set up your file manager with a folder to place your domains in.

In Go Daddy, once you launch your webhosting, click on "File Manager".

Accessing File Manager

In File Manager, create a folder where you will have all your different websites under. I place all of mine under "_sites".

Adding folder in File Manager

4. Add a subfolder in your "_sites" folder (or equivalent) with the name of your domain (e.g., /_sites/domain). This is where your website will be set up.

5. Go to your hosting manager.

Under "Settings", click on "Hosted Domains".

6. Add the domain you want to set up your website under. Click on then start writing your domain under "Domain" and choose the folder you created in Step 4 under "Folder". You can either write this in or browse it. I have used "domain.com" as an example (I do not own that domain).

7. Your new domain will now appear in your list with "pending". This will then change to "Setup" within the hour.

8. When the status changes to "Setup" you can then start building the website within your domain folder (in File Manager). 

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I like using Wordpress as my database instead of creating a whole website from scratch. View below for instructions on how to set up Wordpress in your new domain. You can also view more information here.

To install wordpress, go to wordpress.org and download wordpress to your computer. Next, upload the extracted files into your domain folder (e.g., /_sites/domain).

If you prefer another database or website construction, then visit the relevant database website and follow their manual set up instructions.

9. Set up a new SQL Database. This is so all the domains you have are set up under separate databases to avoid conflict. This is important! You will have a new Host Name for each domain under the same host.

Under "Hosting" and "Databases", click on MySQL. Add a new database using your domain's details. Create a password so you can access the database. I use my domain name as the Friendly name and Username.

You will get a message that says that the database is being set up. Your new database will appear shortly (you may need to revisit the screen again).

10. You then need to add your SQL database details into the website database you have chosen. Below are instructions for Wordpress.

In your browser, write in your domain in the URL box (e.g., domain.com). If you placed all your wordpress files into the correct folder, you will be presented with this.

Click on "Create a Configuration File".

Enter the details you wrote when you created the SQL Database. Under Hostname, do the following:

In the same place where you created your SQL database, click on "Actions" and then "Details". Copy what is written under "Hostname" and paste it onto "Database Host" in the Wordpress set up.

Your wp_config file will then be created under your domain. You can then follow the steps to set up your Wordpress website.

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Please note: These instructions are for when you want to add extra domains under the same webhost. If you only have one domain in one webhost and not planning on having any more domains, then these instructions are not for you. Set up your website using normal methods (install files in your root folder).

If you have any questions, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them. I am by no means a professional in this. I created this because I could not find all of the above under one article. Most articles left some important steps out I had to figure out myself (or assumed the knowledge). In truth, I mainly created this so I can look back on it if I forget how to do it again. Yes, my memory is that horrible.

Learning photoshop

I have always been interested in photography. With the digital technology of today, it really gives quite a liberation when it comes to taking photos.

One liberation is editing them.

Recently I acquired photoshop to edit photos. I have used other image manipulation programs before, however when I opened up photoshop I realised I had no idea how to use it properly.

So I also bought a couple of magazines with fun tutorials, and heck it is awesome.

Below I will demonstrate what I have learned. All original photos were taken by me at some point in my lifetime.

First was an HDR effect. So I chose this photo I took in Singapore to work with:

After applying some layers and filters as per the exact instructions of the magazine, I ended up with this:

I wasn't really that attracted to the final result, so I decided to grab what I had learned from the tutorial and try the same kind of effect with another photo without looking at the tutorial.

I chose the below photo that I took in New Zealand to work with:

 After adding the necessary layers, I ended up with this:

I think this subject suits the effect much more than the first photo I chose. I like how the contrast and colours are enhanced.

I felt like I was on a roll, so I continued onto the next lesson. It was about highlighting colours in an image. I couldn't quite follow the tutorial, but I managed to understand the concept, so I did the below.

I chose the following image I took in Perth. I remember trying to convey something with the image at the time I was taking it, but couldn't get it to show what I was looking at.

With the tutorial I was able transform it into something I was trying to convey. I was able to move the focus on the car and the graffiti on the wall at the same time, which is what caught my attention at time the photo was taken.

This is what I saw that day I was standing on that road. This was my focus.

Next tutorial was about mixing two photos together. The tutorial was very hard to follow and I am pretty sure some steps were missed because I didn't know what or where to click in the program. It was a crap tutorial. However, just with the above I learned the concept and tried to apply it my own way.

I chose the following two photos I took in New Zealand:

I then merged them together to create the misty background with the house in the foreground.

I thought this was a good attempt considering I wasn't sure what I was doing. I don't think I could repeat it. I did like the end result, though. I think this background suits the scenery well.

Next tutorial was to create a vintage effect.

I followed the tutorials instructions in full with the following photo I also took while in New Zealand of Mount Teranaki:

After following all of the instructions I was left with this:

I really like this effect. It reminds me of that time I found some postcards that were twice my age. I wanted to create more, so I chose another photo to see if I could create the effect on my own.

I chose the following photo of a pony I spotted in New Zealand:

 After some tweaking and some failing, I reached my end result:

I love it! I think I chose the right photo and all the filters were perfect (after a lot of trial and error).
I then decided to create a rounded edge effect so it looks more like an old photo format.


Photoshop... so many possibilities... so much to learn!

To get rich - first step, learn why

Normally I do not like spending much time reading. Therefore when it comes to choosing a book to read, I make sure it is worth my time. It needs to add something to my life. I need to learn something from it.

This is why I don't really like reading fiction. For me it isn't valuable as reading material. If I want a story I will just watch a movie. It takes less time and it is easier to visualise. I cannot visualise fiction in a book and find myself reading the same page over and over again.

However, I have decided to spend more time reading. The first book I picked up to start my habit is "Why we want you to be rich" by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki.

I chose this particular book because in the past I have read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki and found it quite interesting. I had also recently seen the TV show "The Apprentice", featuring Donald Trump, for the first time just a few months ago. I liked the way he spoke and his reasons for firing people.

My father had lent me this book a year or so ago to read, with other 'get rich' books. For many years now he has drilled money talk into my head. "Financial education is the most important education. Do not turn out like me, still working in my 50's. Be free quicker. Do not rely on the government, rely on yourself." This is they type of things my dad kept telling me, but in the past I had other issues in my head I knew I had to solve before I could focus on anything. Now that I am happy with my life, it is time to gain more. It is time to be free.

On our fridge my partner and I have a white board where we write our future plans. It is mostly things we have been invited to or shows we have planned. This is what I have on it now:

All other plans blurred because you have no business knowing where I will be at which date

This is a reminder of what is ahead. We will be rich, because we are both studying and researching. We are educating ourselves how to be rich, and most importantly understand why we need to be rich.

The 'why' is important. As per the book I am currently reading, too many people rely on others for money, mostly the government. People become dependent on their jobs. Then during retirement they become dependent on their pensions, which is money that comes from the government. There is no way the government can support everyone. This is why people should grow up and be independent, completely!

This 'why' has some conflict with my job. In my current job I place money from the government into other people's bank accounts for those who are eligible to receive it. There are so many people who rely on that money, even when they have a job and are still quite young. Many times I have clients calling and letting me know how difficult it is to pay their mortgage and expenses and they are in desperate need of that money. They have become dependent on the government for pocket money. This is sad. I often question why they are living beyond there means. I am the same age as a lot of them and am living very comfortably. Why are they struggling while I am not? I'm not receiving any cash from the government, yet I have more than enough to live on.

I have always tried to find a way to give those people the money faster, to help them out, but now I know that it isn't helping them at all. A lot have created a mindset that the money they are receiving from the government in a right. I see it as something that is limiting them. It is taking the easy way out instead of the better way out. It is creating dependence instead of independence. What happens when the government no longer has any more money to give? Or is trillion of dollars in debt because no one has the initiative to take care of themselves?

In my line of work, we lodge an average of 1.5 million dollars into people's bank accounts a week. That is 1.5 million dollars leaving the government every week. We are only one department that offer government money. There are others that give away much more money away, not to mention all the pensions. I don't understand why the people complain that governments are spending too much money. They are spending a big portion of it on the people because the people are too lazy to get their own money. To the people: grow up!

It isn't entirely the people's fault. They probably have no idea that they can be financially independent. A lot of times people hide behind excuses or do not realise that they will not be physically and/or mentally able to work for the rest of their lives. If a job is your only income source, what happens when you no longer work? Why are people okay with relying on others to feed them? Why do people work so hard their entire lives instead of working smarter? Why are people just accepting one way of acquiring an income: a job?

I found this article on the Internet from yourlifechoices.com. In a nutshell, a pensioner committed suicide because the money he was receiving from the government was not enough to support himself. It is a tragic story. What is more tragic are the comments. People blame the government for not giving pensioners enough money after all their hard labour during their lifetime. What the people do not understand is that not everyone makes the life choice to do hard labour their whole lives. Some choose a better option and do not end up relying on the government for pension money. Some people choose to work smart and not hard. What would you prefer? Working hard your whole life in a job and then be dependent on the government and other people? Or work hard at first, researching, educating yourself about money, learning how to use money, until eventually you can use money to generate more money without necessarily going to a job every day, then not rely on anybody for money until the end of days? Would you rather be a victim with victim mentality? Or would you rather be a winner with success in mind?

My father is nearing sixty. He has worked very hard his entire life, since the age of 11. Only a few year ago when he was unable to work did he realise that that was a mistake. He was working hard for nothing. In his early 50's he learned that he should not rely on the government for his pension. That is a high risk choice with no guarantees. In other words, it is a stupid strategy. So he started reading books and learning during the time he was out of work. He decided to become financially smarter. He now has 3 properties and building another. He says he could easily retire with the income he is receiving from them without relying on the government. He did this in about 7 years, which shows me that it is not too late for anyone! However he is still working hard in a job, because of me. He is delaying retirement to make sure I have something other than a job. He wants me to have something working for me instead of me working for others. He will not rest until I assure him that I will not go down the same path he went down  most of his life. He is helping me and sacrificing himself on the way, and I am grateful for that. In his sacrifice he will be giving me half a fish while also forcing me to learn how to fish for the other half. 

My father will not be anything like that Greek pensioner who committed suicide. However, if he did not go without a job in his late 40's to early 50's and was forced to find another way to gain money other than a job, he very well could have ended up the same as that Greek pensioner.

I understand very well why I need to get rich, so that is my plan. Next step is to read, learn and educate myself! I do not want to take the high risk of relying on others for my pension money. That's just crazy!

I will be occasionally writing what I learn, to revise and also to demonstrate my process. This way I can look back and see exactly how I got to where I will get, and others can also follow.

Accepting unfinished lists and creating new habits

The main reason I created this blog was to gain some motivation and focus on the things I want to complete. I always start projects without finishing them. There's a huge list, and it keeps adding on.

Sometimes I wonder what the importance of completing it is. Is it the task itself of the feeling of self accomplishment? I really think is so that the list gets smaller, but I know that is never going to happen. Ever!

Lately I have been thinking if that is a bad thing. Should my lists reduce? Or should I keep adding onto them?   There are times people have said to me that if they didn't have a job they would be at home bored with nothing to do. I wonder how that can be. I can think of hundreds of things to do! Therefore there is never a time one can be bored at home. My job is keeping me away from it!

So I have decided that having this never ending list is a good thing. It keeps me occupied. It gives me something to do, whether or not it gets completed. Doing something is better than doing nothing.

One of the things that has been on my list for about a decade now is to read more books. I have never really been into fiction books because I cannot visualise fantasy as well as I can visualise real things. So at a very young age I found myself in the non-fiction sections of the library a lot. Younger age versions of me was reading books on arts and crafts, origami and cooking. Slightly older version of me was reading books on Greek mythology or Ancient Egypt. Older still, starting in my teens, it was books in Psychology and Science.

All these reading came from curiosity, not from entertainment, that's why fiction wasn't appealing. However this form of curiosity also took up time. I was never really a persistent reader because it hurt my eyes and I got easily distracted with other thoughts in my head. Then with the demands of high school and its reading, then university, reading for my own personal curiosity declined. There were also other methods in acquiring information, such as the Internet.

Even though I have not been to university in a little more than 2 years, my reading habit for curiosity has not come back. Mostly because I have forgotten how good books fulfil curiosity. There's information in books that is not as easily accessible on the Internet or other forms of information collecting. Also, on the Internet there is less focus. Too many things are distracting in the internet. Too many subject matters. Too many easily to click links. Too many funny cat videos.

One of my biggest issues has always been lack of focus. For example, this post was supposed to have been about something else than what I have just written. I became distracted by my own thoughts. However, at the same time these thoughts has given me some insight. I need more focus. I need to read.

Do something that requires focus to create the habit of focus. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Starcraft II mostly, a kind of descriptive review

Life is pretty good at the moment.

Everything seems to be going just fine. I am extremely happy in my relationship and I also got into Gold league in Starcraft II.

I reached one of my goals without trying that much. I was playing Starcraft II in order to do my video game hula hoop exercise routine. Hula hooping gets really tiring when you do it for a long time, so I ended up winning a lot of my games. Out of the blue the above image popped up onto my screen. I was speechless.

I don't really see much difference between the Gold league and Silver league. Except the fact that a lot of players I am versing think they are much better than what they are. I feel comfort that I can admit that I am not that great, hence not being delusional. Sometimes players can say the odd nasty thing about my ability, but I'm not too phased. I'm in Gold versing Gold players, not a Master! My ability, just like their's is not going to be that fantastic. It is kind of like a toddler telling another toddler that they are a noob in walking. It just sounds stupid.

So far my wins are greater than my losses, which is a good sign. However the game has changed a little bit too. A new update made it both easier and harder. It is easier because it lets you know how many probes you are mining at a mineral line and also the game starts on its own. There are also quite a few stats so you can see some of the factors that could have made you lose or win. It makes analysing a game much easier.

The hard thing about the new update is that it is harder to scout your opponent. If they are building something, you cannot click on it to see what it is. You have to scout long enough to see the finished product. Also, you cannot see your opponent's upgrades. Before you could click on their army and see how much armour and weapons they had in upgrades. Now it is harder to judge whether or not you can take on their army, because that information no longer exists. On the flip side, though, it also means your opponent doesn't know your upgrades either.

I have mixed feelings about the update. I like that I can analyse my games better now. I don't like how the game just starts on it's own. I don't see why the game has to automatically make my workers mine. It is one less thing I have to do, but I don't really want the game to play it for me.

Didn't really intend for this post to be about Starcraft II, but it just happened.

My gardening is going really well with my tomato plants flowering and everything else growing strong. I'll eventually post some photos, but can't be bothered hooking up my camera to the computer.

I also recently did the Color Run. That was fun. I like getting dirty.

Geneology

For some time now (years) I have been meaning to create my family tree.

I started collecting photos of my relatives and asked for birth dates and names. And then things got too difficult and I stopped.

Recently my brother sent me a whole heap of photos he collected from my cousin when he visited Portugal a year or so ago. I had no idea he collected the photos and only now did he have a look through them to send.

There is heaps of information right there. I know my grandmother's father's parents name. I know that my grandmother was named after her mother, and like her, died too soon. I never met my grandmother from my dad's side, so seeing photos of her is great.

She was so beautiful.

Now I am obsessed to know everything that I can about everyone. I have a whole lot of photos, some I have no idea who they are. I visited my mother and went through the photos with her to see if she recognised anyone. She then let me know some of the family stories.

A very interesting story is one from my dad's side. About my grandfather's sister and my grandmother's sister. They both got impregnated by the same man at the same time. He then married my grandmother's sister because she was the youngest, and abandoned my grandfather's sister with a child. He then had more children with my grandmother's sister. This means that my grandfather's niece and my grandmother's nieces and nephew are half siblings. Here I was thinking that these people were only related by marriage. Nope, there is the same blood running through there on both sides!

Below I created a diagram in order to figure it out visually. I had to be a little bit creative with the family tree structure...

Then I asked my mother about one of her cousins. I asked who his mother was. I was confused because I knew that my great grandmother only had one surviving child, which was my grandmother (mother's side). I knew she had half siblings as her father moved on to another two women, so I was wondering if this particular cousin of my mother's came from one of those half siblings of my grandmother. Nope, it is more complicated than that. I had to go back to my great great grandmother. She had two children with a man, and then another child with another. Her first man also changed partners and had a daughter. That daughter of his then had another daughter and that person is the mother of my mother's cousin.

Thing is, I call the children of my mother's cousin my cousins. So I would like to include them in the family tree.

With all this in mind, drawing up a family tree will be a bit of a nightmare if I want to include everyone I know!

However this information journey is pretty cool. Just recently found out that my mother was present at my grandparent's wedding. They got married after having four children. I thought these kind of things only happened in the most recent generations. Guess not!

Starting what I never finished

Lately I have been doing some things I have planned to do in years.

One of those things is the print out a selection of my digital photos to put them in albums from 2004 until today. I planned to do this about 3 years ago when a bunch of photos got deleted from my computer, which I was lucky to have on CD at the time. The CD was slightly scratched and it took awhile for the computer to read it. I thought, "that was a close one, but one day that CD is going to fail."

Three years later (and many computer upgrades) I have started what I failed to start (and therefore finish). So far I have managed to print photos from 2004-2006. It turned out to be 385 photos and $74. Six more years to go... And counting.

I can only expect there to be way more photos in the coming years. Back in 2004-2006 my SD card was 512Mb big and I didn't have as much freedom to insanely point and shoot. I then acquired a 2gb card at around 2007. This is where things are going to get interesting (or extremely annoying considering I have to go through them all and select the best ones.)

It is also quite awkward. During 2004-2010 I was with my ex. There are a lot of photos that he is in. I have been cutting him out of a few, but he will always end up in some. I have to accept that he was a part of my past and I can't erase him completely.

It is also quite noticeable how big my boobs have grown since then.