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Standard Power - cPanel hosting with addon domains up to 5 websites

Usually every website or eshop deals with a particular field. There are cases where the main activity of this field is framed by secondary or additional ones.

An example could be a company that has a main website and wants a separate secondary domain to publish its balance sheet. Additionally let's assume that the same company needs another domain for the promotion of a new product, in order to upload the product brochure and a small website to advertise it.

Through the Standard Power hosting plan, you can have one (1) main domain and four (4) additional ones (addon domains) to support such a project.

Yes, you can host up to 5 different websites on the same hosting plan.

What you should watch out for:

- The size of the websites.

If a site is big, then it is likely that it consumes quite a big part of the available iNodes of the package, that are 100000. Every file of folder or email is an iNode, so a typical WordPress site has usually 5000 to 10000 iNodes. Therefore, if you have 5 small websites you will be able to host them to the same hosting plan.

- Security issues

What you have to keep in mind is that all the websites that are hosted by the same hosting plan, are in fast located in adjacent folders within the same package. So, in case of a website violation, there is a possibility that another co-hosted one might be affected as well.

The above fact does not apply to cases when every website has its own cPanel account, since each one account has its own user in the operating system and is protected by the operating system itself.

Thus, if you are planning to host open source applications, you need to be constantly aware of the available updates, as these applications are usually targeted for malicious attacks, if they are not updated. In case you have custom applications or static html pages, the risk is significantly lower if you are planning to host all your sites by one hosting package.

- Adequacy of resources

The Standard Power hosting plan has specific system resources (CPU, RAM, I/O, Iops), that are used from the sites that are being hosted. If a site has more requirements in resources then it is likely that it consumes a significant portion of the given resources or even all of them and thus makes the other pages delay. If for example, a site has a mechanism that is not functional and produces a lot of CPU consumption, then it is possible that all the sites of the hosting plan will be slow as the CPU usage will have been drained.

The above case is something that doesn't occur when there are separate cPanel accounts since the site has its own resources and thus, in case of a malfunction, it cannot affect any other site. None of the websites can exceed the resources given by the hosting plan, so it cannot exhaust the server's resources, but only its individual ones that are a subset of the total resources of the server.

Moving an addon domain to a separate cPanel account, is a process that is supported by the cPanel but can be achieved only from the server administrator.

To move a domain to its own cPanel account, you have first to purchase a new hosting plan which will be linked to this domain and then contact us to initiate all the requested technical procedures.

If you have more than 5 sites and want to host them on the same hosting plan, you can upgrade your subscription to the next hosting plan Standard Premium with unlimited domains.

Alternatively you can examine other solutions, such as purchasing a standalone hosting package for the new domain that you want to host or switch to a Reseller hosting plan.

This is a decision that has mostly to do with the available budget and then with the technical or management issues.

If someone can afford a standalone hosting plan for each site, then it is without a doubt recommended to have separate subscriptions as:

- Every hosting plan has its own resources, so if a website is quite demanding, it won't affect the performance of the other websites.

- There is complete independence between the websites and the operating system, as every single cPanel account is linked with a different user on the server. In this way, we can achieve a higher security level.

- The money you invest in hosting is better utilized (value for money). Each hosting plan has maximum 1 core CPU, so with 5 different hosting plans you can potentially use 5 of the available server cores at the same time, as well as other resources (Ram, I / O, iops, inodes). On the contrary, the Standard Power hosting plan gives 1 core CPU that is shared between the pages hosted on it. The same applies to the rest of the hosting plan's resources.

The advantage of a single hosting plan with 5 addon domains, is basically financial. Τhere is also the convenience of the single management, since you just have to do with one cPanel account and thus less login data and fewer administrative actions when it comes to the package's needs.

In conclusion, if your websites are not in great need of resources and are basically static or very simple, then you will clearly benefit from the single hosting plan. However, if your websites are dynamic and have good potential to grow, you may be able to start with a single hosting plan but in the long run it will be preferable to switch to a more more efficient solution like the standalone hosting plan.