Hostgator: Unlimited Multiple Domain Names With A Single Hosting Account

Hostgator allows you to have multiple domain names associated with a single hosting account. The ability to have unlimited websites with a single hosting account is partly what attracted me to hostgator in the first place.

The thing that confused me at first was that I thought unlimited websites meant that you paid for a single hosting account and then got to add as many additional domain names to that account free of charge. That is not the case, and I wish they were clearer about that. You have to pay $15 for each additional .com domain name that you wish to register (if you are purchasing a brand new domain from hostgator that is). But that is still quite a good deal compared to if you were to purchase brand new hosting for each new domain.

Additional website domain names are added to your hostgator package as add-on domains. You have one primary website address associated with your hosting package and each additional domain is an add-on domain.

Add-on domains can be added to your hosting account from the C-Panel, but you must already own the domain you wish to add.

An add-on domain is a fully functioning website and has no less functionality than the primary domain. In the hostgator C-panel.

Hostgator sees your add-on domain as www.primarydomain.com/addondomain but Google will pick it up as www.addondomain.com so it acts just like a normal website, and there is no negative SEO side affects associated with this.

The hostgator website has more information on the different packages on offer including the specifics on the difference between add-on domains, sub-domains and the various services on offer.