I was putting together a website for a up and coming Toledo Restaurant today that has many new domain names. They plan on expanding their web presence with multiple brands and a little planning by the web-developer can save them cost and whole lot of headache when using a web hosting plan Like Hostlantern’s Unlimited Hosting plan.
As i was putting everything together, I thought to myself, how many people actually know how to setup multiple domains on one hosting account? Better yet, How many people actually know the difference between addon domains, sub domains, and Alias or parked domains? This article is geared towards a Cpanel hosted environment offered at Hostlantern but the principles apply universally. Below hopefully will help demystify the lingo and functionality.
Addon Domain
An addon domain is a second website, with its own unique content. This type of domain does require you to register the new domain name before you can host it. So, if you want to host www.someotherdomain.com,on the same hosting plan, this is the best solution.