A parked domain is what cPanel refers to as a domain that you want to add to your web hosting account that does nothing other than point to another published web site that you have on your account. Common uses for parked domains include providing additional domains that a specific web site resolves to, or just saving domains for use in a future project or endeavor.
An add-on domain is what cPanel refers to as a domain that you want to add to your web hosting account with the intent of either running a separate web site or running separate email accounts. In other words, you can run multiple web sites on your web hosting account provided that you have enough ad-on domains to support those web sites.
We really prefer cPanel for a several reasons, notably because of how much other companies use it. The commonality of cPanel among hosting companies combined with the fact that it is very easy to use make it almost a standard. Many people are already familiar with cPanel, and if you are not it’s pretty intuitive and easy to use as well. Additionally, cPanel is overwhelmingly unrestrictive, and will let an administrator make almost any change he or should would like.
Other control panels include DirectAdmin, H-Sphere and Plesk, while others are sometimes proprietary altogether. Depending on how your control panel is configured, you may have several of your editing options restricted or unavailable.
cPanel provides a web-based interface for you to manage and control all of your web services. This includes things like your email accounts, autoresponders, forwarders, FTP accounts, web site files, databases, cron jobs, add-on domains, and parked domains.
We use cPanel, which is an excellent, commonly used system.
Green Media Hosting runs Linux-based servers and run Apache Web Servers, all of which is pretty standard.