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Wonder what you can get at Lunarpages?

- Web host with best customer supports
- 1,500 GB Disk Storage; 15,000 GB Bandwidth
- Host unlimited domain names on one host
- Free tools for blog, ecommerce, CMS
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
- Special Promo: $4.95/mo for 24 months

 


How to create an addon domain on Lunarpages

It’s easy to add additional domain on your Lunarpages hosting account via cPanel.

An addon domain is a domain hosted on the same Lunarpages account but is pointed to a subfolder of your main domain. It works like an independent website where e-mail account and stats reporting can be added separately from the main domain.

To create an addon domain, you’ll first need to login to Lunarpages cPanel. Once you have made your way to the cPanel front page, look for an icon named ‘Addon Domain’.

Lunarpages addon domain icon

Click in and you’ll see a series of addon domain already hosted on your account (if there’s any). For the first timer, here’s the screen you’ll be seeing where a simple form is given at the Addon Domain Maintenance screen.

Lunarpages addon domain icon

Fill in the form accordingly and click ‘Add Domain’ when you’re done. The cPanel system will setup everything automatically and you should be done within minutes.

In case you need help for the form (which I don’t think it’s necessary), here is a rundown quoted from Lunarpages Wiki Page:

New Addon Domain:

The domain you wish to add to the account (such as example.com). Be sure you do not add the “www” in front of the addon domain when putting in the address.

Username/directory Name:

The subdomain/director in your account you would like to point the addon domain.

Password:

Create a new password for the addon domain. Please make it 6-8 characters and it should not contain the domain name.

The setup process is pretty simple and direcet. It’s, however, worth noting that addon domains will not be functional unless the domain name is registered with a valid domain name register and the domain name is configured to point at the Lunarpages nameserver for your account (something like NS54.Lunarpages.com and so on).

Also, do not confuse addon domain with a subdomain. Sub domains are extensions of your main site. They look like subdomain.yourdomain.com; while add on domains are self standing domains which are simply located on the same account as your original domain.


Lunarpages Hosting Control Panel

A web hosting control panel is actually an user-friendly control interface that we used to access and operate our web hosting server. The quality of the control panel defines how well you can control and operate your website on the hosting.

For Lunapages, cPanel is used as the website control panel.

I am a fans of cPanel and think they are the best web hosting control panel. I had used some other control panels (some are built in-house as well as Plesk) and I found cPanel more user friendly and powerful than most other well-known control panel (Plesk for example).

In fact, cPanel is used by most of the shared hosting companies nowadays. With cPanel, you can almost control everything on the hosting server – email accounts, MySQL databases, customer error mesages, MIME types, apache handlers, search engines submission, chat room, upload files via cPanel file manager, doing cron job, and even shopping cart for e-commerce website.

Enough talk, here’s the screen-cap of cPanel in actions.


Welcome page at cPanel


File Manager at cPanel


Cron Job at cPanel