Addon Versus Parking Domains

[rockee]

ADDON DOMAINS

Let's assume you have setup your X10 Hosting account with a domain that you own called myowndomain.com
(This mini Tut. applies equally if you have setup X10 Hosting using a free subdomain name, for example: yourname.x10hosting.com - you can still add on a registered domain or park a registered domain you own via your cPanel, but I stand to be corrected if this is not the case as I have no way of testing with a free sub-domain).

You also have just purchased or own another registered domain name called theotherdomain.com

Because X10 Hosting permits you to have only one hosting account, you may feel that you have to either fork out more money for another hosting account or perhaps look for another free hosting service somewhere to host theotherdomain.com

This is not necessary as you can add on theotherdomain.com to your existing X10 Hosting account via your cPanel's Addon Domains feature and it will appear, to all intents and purposes, to be hosted on it's own hosting account somewhere, even though it is now a sub-domain of myowndomain.com in your hosting account at X10 Hosting.

When you type in the address bar http://www.theotherdomain.com/ it will remain in the address bar as http://www.theotherdomain.com/ and will not change by going to other linked pages in theotherdomain.com web site.

For example, if you click on a link in the index page it will go to the link, retaining the http://www.theotherdomain.com/mylinkedpage.html appearance in the address bar of your visitor's browser.

This behavior is what you want to happen if you own a domain and have a separate web site for that domain, you really don't want it to show that it is only part of another web site that has a completely different domain name.



PARKING DOMAINS

Now the other method is to park theotherdomain.com at the mydomain.com hosting account via the cPanel feature Parking Domains.

This method does not have thehotherdomain.com associated with it but rather uses URI forwarding to achieve the serving of a web page.

A typical scenario for this method goes like this:
(I am using a different domain name to demonstrate this scenario)


You have a forum that is very successful that your visitors access by typing http://www.mydomain.com/forum/index.php in their browser.

You decide to register a domain name called myforum.com to make your forum look professional and make it easier for your visitors to remember, but because it has many pages and a large database you don't feel like disturbing or moving the forum to another server - downtime and possible subsequent time consuming errors showing up make this move a severe case of migraine.

So when you park your new simple domain name myforum.com you actually forward the forum pages to the existing pages at http://www.mydomain.com/forum/index.php

So when your visitors type in their browser http://www.myforum.com/ they will go to the forum but will see in their browser address bar after arriving at the forum http://www.mydomain.com/forum/index.php


The downside to parking a domain for Web Masters, apart from the obvious, is that the web stats and log files are not created separately, where as an add on domain will have it's own set of logs and stats separate from those for mydomain.com or the X10 Hosting free sub-domain.


Both the Addon Domains and the Parked Domains features in cPanel are very simple and easy to follow and to setup.
If anyone has a problem on that score then please feel free to post back and I will try and go through it with you.


Using the File Manager(Legacy) in cPanel, or an ftp client, will reveal how the add on domain or the parked domain have been set up and how different the root web folder tree now appears, with the add on domain folder present but no folder present for the parked domain.


IN SUMMARY

So to simplistically summarise, ideally you would use a parked domain to access the same content in a web site of the main domain and you would use an add on domain to access it's own and very different content web site.

Remember that to park or add on a domain you have to own the domain name and have it registered at a domain name registrar and you must point the nameservers to those at the X10 Hosting:

NS1.X10HOSTING.COM
IP is needed: 74.86.117.243

NS2.X10HOSTING.COM
IP if needed: 74.86.117.241

Don't forget to allow time for the nameserver changes you make at your registrar to propagate the Internet before your domain name will be active.



Thank you for your time and I sincerely hope this has cleared up a some of the mystery and confusion surrounding this subject that, quite often, is not very well explained (as some readers may find my Tutorial to be).

Also it can be a hard subject to find the most suitable keywords to search for the best answers via the search engines.

Regards as always,
Rocky.

[tittat]

i have an addon domain www.example1.com
And i want to park a domain www.example2.com to www.example1.com

Can you suggest me solution.?

[rockee]

From what I see, the only suggestion I can make is to use the Addon Domain Redirection feature under the Addon Domain menu item in cPanel.

If redirection is not the answer for you, then I know of no other method at this time to park a domain on an addon domain - other readers may have a suggestion or two.

Regards,
Rocky

[tittat]

thanks rockee, but anyway Redirection feature is not what iam looking for........

Some other solutions please.......

[rockee]

The addon domain uses the virtual host container in the httpd.conf file or in the later versions of Apache in a httpd-vhosts.conf file.

This addon domain is a sub-domain of the main domain.

A parked domain is just a forwarding process of the parked domain to the main domain.


IMHO, to park a domain (forward) on to an Addon domain (a sub-domain of the main domain) perhaps is achievable on an individual basis by a server administrator manually entering the details in to the Apache configuration file but I see no way of using cPanel at this point in time.

I think the server Administrator may look at this type of behavior as a way to work around the limit of parked, addon or subdomains alloted to an individual free hosting account, so your chances of achieving your goal may be some what limited. I could be wrong though.

Just to add, to get the definitive answer to this it would be wise to post your question in either of the 2 forums that the X10 Hosting Staff seem to frequent most - Free Hosting and Upgrades/Downgrades/Changes - as it may take some time before they spot it in this forum.

Good luck with it.

Regards,
Rocky

[Adam01]

Does anyone know any free services to host parked or addon domains?

[rockee]

If I understand your question correctly, I don't know of anyone who would be game enough to post a link here to a competing free hosting service, as I believe this would infringe the forum rules.

If you have used up all your Addon and Parked domain quota with X10 Hosting, have you considered installing a server suite on your own PC if you have a broadband always on Internet connection and your ISP TOS permits this (most cable Internet access providers block web server and email sending standard ports but this can be overcome by using non standard ports in ther server's configuration files)?

Most Windows OS have a web server, IIS (Internet Information Service), already installed or available on the OS installation disk.

For an Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl server suite (ampp), a Google search will reveal a selection to choose from and experiment with.

The advantage of going down the ampp route is it will give you more of an understanding of how a professional hosting service, like X10 Hosting for example, works.

Regards,
Rocky

[Adam01]

No, not like that. ...Nevermind.

[tittat]

Does anyone know any free services to host parked or addon domains?

i didn't understand your question.Can you please explain


Did you mean site like http://freedns.afraid.org/


FreeDNS.afraid.org is a popular full service free dns and dynamic DNS provider. This unique service allows you to share your domain with the members, and use other domains shared by other members. Active competent technical support staff, and supports IPv6. Great for creating unique vhosts. Business class DNS hosting also available.

[Adam01]

I want a domain which I can use to park something linking to my website.
..for free.