: What are the pros and cons of hosting multiple domains on one VPS? I have one main company website (lots of traffic), and 10+ personal sites that I host for friends (small traffic). I'm wondering

@Connie744

In a sense, a VPS host already hosts thousands of separate company web sites already so you doing the same thing is no different. The only disadvantage is, if the VPS goes down, they all go down.

If you are paying for traffic, of course, then that cost will go up but you say that is minimal.

Should one of the sites get heavily loaded, it can slow down all your sites depending on how your host has your server configured.

One concern is malicious code between sites. This can be locked down with proper security measures such as Jails in FreeBSD or containers in Linux, not to mention setting all the usual permissions and user levels afforded by *nix/BSD systems to isolate each site as much as possible.

An advantage is it saves you money by not buying more server installations and keeping everything under one roof.

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