Addon domains - to use or not?

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  • Elchanan
    Junior Member
    • Jul 2005
    • 8

    #1

    Addon domains - to use or not?

    Hi everyone,
    I've never administered anything like this before. I'm doing fine in general, but there is one thing I don't understand well enough to know whether I want to use it or not -- addon domains.

    I have a domain, say abc.org, and three separate domains, say d.org, e.org, and f.org. abc is the umbrella for the whole thing, but d, e, and f are meaningful in English (as pathofhealth.org). So I want people to see d.org (or e or f) in links.

    When they click on such a link, I want them to go to the correct d.org page, which can also be a d.abc.org page, that is fine (from redirection).

    I like the idea that these domains would all share common allocation resources, and that the d, e, and f domains could all have their files stored in subdirectories under abc. I think this is so??)

    Perhaps another question would help: for any domain, say d.org, can I tell that domain in what directory to find its files? (I assume so.) If so, how?

    I hope my question is sufficiently clear.
    Thanks,
    Elchanan
  • Elchanan
    Junior Member
    • Jul 2005
    • 8

    #2
    Addon domains -- more

    It occurs to me that I should add that perhaps what I really could use is an explanation of what an addon domain is, how it differs from a parked domain, when or why one would use an addon domain.
    Elchanan

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    • Elite
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2004
      • 168

      #3
      Parked Domains are domains that point to the main domain account. So if you own abc.com, you can park d.com and e.com so that if any of the domains are looked up the contents of abc.com are shown.

      Add-On Domains are domain added to your current account but will show separate website. It will reside in your abc.com/subfolder/ but technically you will have a totally separate website for it. Add-On domains share resources like wbespace and bandwidth with your main account. They also share the same cPanel.

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