So, based on your edit, it looks like you have two virtualhost entries, one for houghton.co and one for neilhoughton.com?
If they're redirecting to the exact same set of documents on your server, you only need one virtualhost declaration that would look something like this:
Code:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin neilandjune@gmail.com
ServerName houghton.co
ServerAlias www.houghton.co neilhoughton.com www.neilhoughton.com
DocumentRoot /srv/www/houghton.co/public_html/
</VirtualHost>
I do this on one server of mine a lot, to park purchased domains to our company's home page until they are associated with their respective codebase.
Also, your VirtualHost line starts with the IP and port 80, as opposed to mine, which is *:80. Unless you have multiple IP addresses and need to explicitly make sure one site answers on one IP and another answers on another IP, either way works in your case.
I honestly don't know if there is a "best practices" way to do it, as I'm only a newbie to being a sysadmin. Everything I've learned is through Google, and Linode's documentation, so take my advice with a grain of salt, it may not be perfect

All I know is that it works for me, and works well!