Hosting Your Band Website

Subhosting With Others

Let’s say that you definitely don’t want to go free but you don’t really want to cough up the monthly hosting fees just yet. Well, you might think about attempting to get your band’s website sub-hosted.

By this, I mean, that your website could “piggyback” on someone else’s hosting plan… in other words your site would live in a subdirectory of theirs. And as mentioned before you could have a domain forwarded to this sub-hosting address, in case you ever decided to upgrade to get your own hosting.

If you are already signed to an indie label that has an existing website then your problems may be solved. Many indie labels have set aside pages for their bands that can act as a home page if need be. And since they are probably already aware of high bandwidth data files like MP3s, they probably have a hosting plan that can handle the traffic.

Having your website be a page that exists on the labels site can also be beneficial because you are being placed close to your labelmates. So the chances that a visitor who is looking for band A will also check out band B, which is your band, is fairly decent. The old “safety in numbers” way of thinking.

If you aren’t on a label, then you may still be able to get sub-hosted on an indie music related site. Many indie communities sub-host band sites for free; you just have to find one that is like minded and email them and ask if it would be possible. It of course helps if you are more well known and don’t have a lot of crazy requirements, but it is worth a shot either way.

There are still problems with sub-hosting off another site. These are pretty similar as the problems with free sites. Control and Web Space / Traffic. Most likely space won’t be so much of a problem. And if you are sub-hosted off your indie label’s website, they will probably try to accommodate you on how the site looks and other features. It is still a bit touch and go; if you want a message board or something that they don’t have you may be outta luck.

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