[Totally Newbie] Domains, Landing Pages and Hostings

[Zura]

Dear all,

Currently I am trying to solve all technical topics in my head before creating my first campaign since I am beginner in these tech stuff

I need to get separate domains for each of my campaigns, and create new subdomains for my different landers/offers etc in each campaign, right? However, purchasing only 1 hosting is enough for all those domains/subdomains in my first campaigns I guess...

Another topic is about financials... My native currency is highly devalued against USD and Euro. Even small $ and € amounts becomes high amounts in TL, therefore I am trying to find some economical solutions. While googling, encountered with AWS. Have you any experience with AWS, is it ok to start with their free plans for hosting?

 

[Aditya007]

Well, It's not required to purchase separate domain names for every campaign, I've seen affiliates using the same domain for multiple campaigns and separate directory for different landing pages. For example, domain(.)com/1/ can host one landing page and domain(.)com/2/ can host the other landing page.

Using a relatively new approach with gTLD, you can use subdomains and make it look like a real domain, I've seen plenty of adult marketers using this tactic. Let's say the domain name is "com-hookups(.)live", hence the subdomains can be "getlaid.com-hookup.live", a typical URL with your lander will look like "http:// getlaid(.)com-hookup(.)live/lander/". Hence saving some bucks for small scale affiliates.

Regarding server, It is true that AWS is free for 1 year and it is absolutely okay to use it but without a lot of technical knowledge, you will not be able to set it up to host websites because it is unmanaged. What you are looking for is a managed host that comes with a panel to host websites with a file manager. So, you either hire somebody to manage your AWS VPS or buy a managed server.

Hope that helps!

 

[Zura]

Hi @Aditya007, thank you very much for your reply. You enlightened me especially for domains I will purchase a very general domain something starting with "com-.." and create subdomains for my each campaigns. And I will host landers on those domains with domain(.)com/1/2/3 etc... Since I will be paying for only one domain, it will be economical in my first steps.

As for hosting part, I googled some today and found some economic offers such as shared hostings of namecheap. Most probably I will go with it since it has cpanel as well. Hope that I will be launching my first campaign in a couple days

 

[Aditya007]

Honestly, I don't generally suggest shared hosts because more often than not it costs me the same as unmanaged VPS and I haven't personally used a shared host in years. Keep it in mind, you'd always want to minimize the loading time.

 

[Graybeard]

Keep it simple

• just use the parent domain with a path

You say 'campaigns'; with CPA and an ad network>tracker>offer path sub domains will only cause a n00b issues with correct configurations. SEO is meaningless in this scenario.

//example.com/1234/22/ you can substitute words for numbers for clarity

The cheap AWS bucket has a control panel but AFIK only static HTML with Javascript is available. If you are just starting out this may be adequate. You can always move up to a real server as you see money being made from your efforts. You can get a lot of VPS unmanaged for $5-$20/mo. But you need to learn Server Administration to work without a control panel --that's advanced stuff.

 

[Zura]

I purchased a shared hosting service and registered a general domain to host my landing pages. Yet now I encountered a new problem Lets say my domain is "test1(.)com"; its name servers are selected as that hosting service name servers. It all looks ok.

But the tracker I want to use (free tracker of cpa network) wants me to add a domain with their nameservers for their tracker. I this case I can't use my main domain "test1(.)com" since it is used for hosting, right? Do I need to purchase a seperate domain just for tracker usage?

 

[Aditya007]

Your users won't be able to see your tracker's domain so you can also use a free one from freenom.com or get a $1 gTLD domain.