Understanding Sub-Domains, Parked Domains and Sub-Accounts

It's been our goal since day one to provide not only affordable hosting services that you could still rely on, but hosting that is easy to understand! Nonetheless, we understand that when it comes to subdomains, parked domains, sub accounts and multi-accounts things can get a bit confusing. The information below should help you better understand the differences regardless oh who you choose for your web hosting.

Sub-Domains

Same Primary Domain, Different something.yourdomain.com

Let's say you own the domain, abc.com. A sub domain of that would be something like newsite.abc.com. With our Enterprise and Developer plans you can create subdomains of your primary domain from your control panel in real time.

Parked Domains

Different Domains Pointing To A Single Website

Let's say you own abc.com, but you also own abc.net, abc.biz, abc.org, etc. You want these domains to also point to your same abc.com site so you "Park" them to your primary site. Another classic example for Domain Parking is if you owned one domain such as mycompany.com but for marketing purposes also used other domains like accountingservices.com or autodetailing.com, etc. There's many good reasons for using multiple domains with a single account which is why we've made it standard on both our Enterprise plan and our Developer plan.

Sub Accounts / Multi Account

Different Websites and Domains Joined By A Single User Control Panel

If you manage multiple web sites and want to control them under one simple plan, you will need sub-account support. With a sub-account you may use either a sub-domain of your primary domain name (example: something.abc.com) or you can use an entirely different domain. Sub-accounts have their own unique web site, emails, CGI, PHP, MySQL, Stats, etc. for each sub-account, all connected by 1 single control panel. Our Developer plan allows you to host up to 5 sub-accounts within your single account.

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