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Unlimited domains and Types of domains

Unlimited Domains:

Once you grow with your business you need to add more domains to your account. Why not make sure about the domains you will be allowed to host under a single website. Many of the hosting companies provides unlimited domains and sub domains.

Let’s have a look at benefits of Unlimited Domain hosting:

• You can host unlimited no of Domains and Sub domains within a single website.
• Unlimited domains in fact have there own FTP, email, database etc.
• This facility provides you an option to grow online.
• You can add as many domains as you can without additional cost, the only thing is keeping traffick, Disk space and other resources which would be shared in mind.

What is Domain parking?

Domain Parking is pointing a domain to another domain existing on the server. Consider you have a domain abc.com and another domain xyz.com. suppose you have parked xyz.com on abc.com  and u access xyz.com you will see the same page as abc.com. The name servers of parked and the main domain point to same name servers.

What is Add on Domain?

Addon domain is as good as a new Website. The add on domain will be hosted or pointed to a folder in public_html folder of your main domain. This is feature provided by the hosting provider, which allows to host multiple domains on single hosting account. This feature allows you to reach a sub domain directly by entering the name of add on domain. You can add multiple domains and remove them from the  addon domain maintenance menu. The addon domain are listed under current addon domains.

Please remember that the add on domains should be already registered and name servers for the addon domain pointing to same name servers as of your main domain.

Consider the following example :

You have addon domain named add.com and your main domain is main.com. you can access in three ways.

1 add.com
2. main.com/add
3. add.main.com

What is Sub Domain?

Sub domain utilizes the existence main domain name. It does not have its own domain name. A sub domain points to a folder in Public_html directort of your main domain.

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Transfer a Website from one to cPanel VPS to Another cPanel VPS

Let hope you have good support from your VPS Hosting Provider like I do, but for those unlucky guys who do not have the privilege and want to transfer their hosting account somewhere else I have some help for you here.

lets say you find a new Hosting Provider however they don’t support you in transferring your old data or website from your Old VPS here is what you need to do.

First you have to make sure that you have cPanel installed on both the New and the Old VPS. Then only with the click of a few buttons you can transfer your complete website to your New VPS.

Then Login to your Old VPS with the root username and password for e.g:

http://100.100.00.00:2082     or     http://100.100.00.00/cpanel
username – your username
password- your password

Then go to Backup’s option in the cPanel Menu and then click on the “Download or Generate a Full Backup” option.

Then under Generate a Full Backup option find the Backup Destination and select the Home Directory. and under the option Enter Email Address: enter your email address.

Then click on the generate backup button.

Once the back up is generated you will receive a notification on your email address.

Then go to the File Manager option on your cPanel and there go to the Home Directory >> /home/username and here you will find the backup that was just generated for you in the following format “backup-11.03.2008_18-06-35_username.tar.gz”

Select the backup file and Move it to the public_html directory and then click on the public_html and you will see the backup there.

Now change the file permission for the Backup file to 644.

Now once this is done login to the New VPS and go to the path where the backup is supposed to be downloaded.

Now to get the backup from the old server use the “wget” command in the following way.

wget http://old_VPS_IP/~old_vps_username/backup-11.03.2008_18-06-35_username.tar.gz

Then once this is done all you need to do is restore the backup Folder.

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