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A common question is "What is the difference between Add-on domain/Subdomain/Parked
domain?"
You can create Add-on domains, subdomains and even Parked domains using cPanel.
1. Parked Domain
Parked domain is a domain which is just "Parked" on to the main domain.
So if you have a domain firstdomain.com with cPanel and now you want
seconddomain.com to serve as an alias for your "firstdomain.com ", so that
whenever any one visits the seconddomain.com they will be directed to the
firstdomain.com
To do this first you need to update the nameservers for the domain :
seconddomain.com so that they point to the same nameservers as the ones for
firstdomain.com.
Then enter your firstdomain.com cPanel (the account which is hosted).
Click on the parked domains -> And add the domain seconddomain.com.
Now the domain seconddomain.com will be parked on the firstdomain.com
Remeber that you need to register/own the domain seconddomain.com before you do
this.
2. Sub Domain
A subdomain will be in the form sudomain.yourdomain.com. When you create a
subdomain using cPanel it will create a directory in your public_html folder.
Goto cPanel of "yourdomain.com" and then click on Sub Domains give the name of
the "subdomain" and then click on "Add"
you can even setup a redirection for this domain from here.
(If the directory name is "sub" )
The Subdomain can be accessed using:
sub.yourdomain.com
OR
yourdomain.com/sub/
3. Add-on Domain
Add-on domain is almost same as Sub Domain but in case of Add-on domains the
domain is already registered (owned) by you and the nameservers for that add-on
domain should be pointing the same nameserves as the firstdomain.com.
The add-on domain will also be hosted on a folder in the public_html folder. (in
our case the folder name is addon)
You can access the Add-on domain using:
addon.com
OR
firstdomain.com/addon/
OR
addon.firstdomain.com
All of these options with a single domain account will split your resources by
each domain, so your total space and bandwidth is shared and your web stats are
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