Hosting Multiple Websites

 On every hosting account that you purchase you have the ability to host multiple websites on one hosting account. What that means to you is that you do not have to purchase a new hosting account to host another website. the limiting factor will be the hosting package you choose and the size and usage of your website.

Below is a list of how many sites you can host on your package.

Personal Package - 5 websites

Silver Package - 7 websites

Gold package - 10 websites

Platinum Package - 20 websites 

Business Package - 100 websites

You are allowed to host according to the numbers above, however if you run out of bandwidth or diskspace, that will be your limiting factor. In that circumstance, you can always upgrade your package to the next package or the one that best suites your need.

Instructions for setting up multiple sites on one host account:

Before you can add an addon domain you must change the name servers for the domain name to the ones provided for your hosting account. You cannot create an addon domain if your DNS for the site you are trying to add hasn't propagated yet.

To create an addon domain login to your cPanel and click "addon domains"

There are three fields cPanel asks for when creating an addon domain.

1. "New Domain Name:" You will put in the newdomain.com do not put www in the name!

2. "Username/directory/subdomain Name:" This will be the folder cPanel creates in your main accounts public_html folder. MAKE SURE that the name you give it doesn't already have a folder. Example... If you want to give it the username chris. You cannot have a folder in your account named chris already. If you do and still try creating the username for the addon domain to be chris you will corrupt multiple things on your account.

3. "Password:" fill in any password you want here.

Addon domains are handled like subdomains as far as the server is concerned, but to the outside world they are separate domains.

When you setup an addon domain, you enter the domainname (without www.) and the system will automatically suggest an appropriate folder and will create that folder so don't make the folder first.

You can enter any password you like.  It doesn't have to be the same as the main domain.

You don't need to create a subdomain for the addon domain.

An FTP account is created for the addon domain so when you FTP using that FTP account it will direct you to the created folder for that addon and that's where you will upload the addon site.

If you need to change the password for the addon you do it through the FTP manager.

To view stats for the addon, you look under subdomain stats.

You will setup emails for the addon domain in the main cPanel.  Addon domains on a shared account do not have their own cPanel.

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