{"id":24152,"date":"2022-02-02T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-whats-the-difference-between-addon-domains-subdomains-and-domain-aliases\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T06:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:17:06","slug":"cpanel-whats-the-difference-between-addon-domains-subdomains-and-domain-aliases","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/cpanel-whats-the-difference-between-addon-domains-subdomains-and-domain-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel: What&#8217;s the difference between Addon Domains, Subdomains and Domain Aliases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information on different domain types.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Addon domains<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Addon domains are completely different domains that are added to a cPanel account. Their main purpose is to host multiple websites on a single cPanel account, and can also be used for email. Although they are connected to the same cPanel account as the main domain, to anyone who visits the website or sends an email for an addon domain the main\/addon domains are completely transparent from and don&#8217;t look linked to each other in any way.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">They share the CPU\/RAM\/Disk Space of your cPanel account. You can create individual subdomains for addon domains just as you can a normal domain.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>INFO:\u00a0<\/strong>For steps to add an addon domain to you cPanel please see this guide<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-create-an-addon-domain-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Subdomains<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Subdomains are &#8220;branches of an existing domain&#8221;, for example, cpanel.yourdomain.co.za , webmail.yourdomain.co.za. They are used to host different pages that are connected to your main domain name. You are also able to set the A record for a subdomain to another server if you wish. They also share the CPU\/RAM\/Disk Space of your cPanel account.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>INFO:\u00a0<\/strong>For steps to add a subdomain domain to you cPanel please see this guide<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-create-delete-a-subdomain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Domain Aliases<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">These domains are like Addon domains however they can&#8217;t be used to make a new website. By default when you go to a domain that&#8217;s parked as an alias it will go to the website of the main cPanel account.They also share the CPU\/RAM\/Disk Space of your cPanel account<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>INFO:\u00a0<\/strong>For steps to add an domain alias to you cPanel please see this guide<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/cpanel-how-to-add-a-domain-alias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Below Is a table that shows what the three types of domains are capable of.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib fr-bordered aligncenter\" style=\"width: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33039040479\/original\/jlTFIS4hoq5u9fXhAPAWy4Exqx1hW59SNw.png?1585817851\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"33039040479\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;\">TIP:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0For more articles on cPanel please see our\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #2753d7; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/category\/web-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cPanel category<\/a>. Alternatively should you wish to c<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #2753d7; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/web-hosting\/#livechat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ontact our Support Center please click here.<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information on different domain types. \u00a0 \u00a0 Addon domains\u00a0 \u00a0 Addon domains are completely different domains that are added to a cPanel account. Their main purpose is to host multiple websites on a single cPanel account, and can also be used for email. 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