Chances are you are using a multi-domain cPanel hosting and you might no be aware of it. Yesterday I was sitting with my brother who happened to have a hosting account at Hostgator. He is on Baby plan which allows anyone to install multiple website on the same hosting account. My brother was unaware of it and he wanted to buy a new hosting for a new website project. While I was explaining him why he doesn’t require new hosting, I realised my blog reader might not be aware of it.
To start with, most of the reputed shared hosting companies allows you to have more than one site on your one account. That means with one account you can have 5, 10 or more websites. For example Bluehost, Cloudways, Hostgator to name a few. In this guide I will be using Hostgator as an example and showing you how you can add an existing domain to your Hostgator hosting. The process will be same for almost all others cPanel hosting.
In y case I have purchased a .com domain from ShoutMydomain for $10.99 and already updated the Name-server to point to my Hostgator hosting. You can login to your Hostgtaor account and get your name-server at the bottom left side. I’m assuming you already have a domain name purchased from elsewhere and you have changed the Name-server of the domain name to point to your Hosting account.
Adding Addon Domain using cPanel : Taking Hostgator as an example
Login to your Hostgator cPanel and click on addon-domains under domains field.
On the addon domains page, as soon as you add your domain name which you want to add, it will ask you to select password for your FTP login. You can also change the default location of your domain.
For tech info: On a shared hosting, your sites are listed in a directory under /public_html/ and files of your primary domain resides under /public_html/
Here is the screenshot of my setup:
Click on add domain to complete the process. On next screen it will show that your domain name is added and new FTP username has been created. Don’t forget to copy and save your FTP login details. This is important as you might want to give access to this domain while sharing FTP logins with your developer or designer.
That’s it and now you have added another domain to your multi-domain web hosting. Now you can install WordPress or do any awesome thing with your domain on existing hosting.
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