Web Hosting Guide

Understanding Sub-Domains, Parked Domains and Sub-Accounts

It's been our goal since day one to provide not only cheap hosting services that you could still rely on, but hosting that is easy to understand! We confess, when it comes to subdomains, parked domains and sub accounts we may have strayed from this "simple" philosophy a bit. Sorry, we just wanted to be sure we not only offered hosting at cheap prices, but also that had the features to serve most any business or webmaster. This brief guide should help explain things a bit.

Sub-Domains
Let's say you own the domain, abc.com. A sub domain of that would be something like newsite.abc.com.

Parked Domains
Let's say you own abc.com, but you also bought 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.

Sub Accounts / Multi Account
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.

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