Green Media Hosting » parked domains

What is hosting?

znmick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:35:13 +0000

Hosting is the term commonly applied to the actual web server that your web site lives on. Besides providing DNS routing and the physical space that your web site lives on, hosting provides you with your other crucial online business functions such as email address management and tools, online file management, database management and ftp access.

What’s a parked domain?

znmick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:23:02 +0000

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.

What’s an add-on domain?

znmick — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:22:27 +0000

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.

What does services does cPanel let me manage?

znmick — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:51:14 +0000

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.