Subdomains & Addon Domains

The Domains section of icons in cPanel allows you to create or manage Subdomains and Addon Domains.

A Subdomain is used to add a prefix to your domain name that then acts like it is a separate website. For example, a site called example.com with a subdomain called demo could be accessed like this:

http://demo.example.com/

Addon Domains are used when you want to use more than one domain name on a single web hosting account. Technically, an Addon Domain is actually using a Subdomain to store the contents of the additional domain names, but then it redirects the Addon Domain to point to the Subdomain so it appears as though the domain is on it's own hosting account.

When you want to add more than one domain to shared hosting account, simply visit the Addon Domains icon to add it to your account.

Just provide the domain name and account login information for this new domain to create it. Once you create it, cPanel and FTP for the site can be accessed either using the main account information for the primary domain on the hosting account or using this new account information for this specific domain.