In this video, I'm going to be going over how to add addon domain in Hostgator step
by step.
Adding an addon domain in Hostgator is a quick and easy process.
By the end of this video, you will successfully have your addon domain in Hostgator created.
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working after you’ve created your Hostgator addon domain.
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Let's get started with the Hostgator addon domain tutorial.
To add an addon domain with Hostgator you’ll need to have purchased the baby or business
plan as this allows unlimited websites.
The hatchling plan you can only have one website and aren’t able to create an addon domain
in Hostgator.
If you currently have the Hatchling plan you can easily upgrade your plan to the baby or
business plan by logging into the Hostgator dashboard.
Click the manage package button.
Click the upgrade plan button.
Select the plan next to the upgrade plan to and choose the available plan you want to
select.
Agree to the terms of service and click the change plan now button.
To create an addon domain in Hostgator, you want to start by logging into your Hostgator
cPanel account.
Once logged in you’ll be on the main cPanel page here.
From here scroll down to the domains section.
Click addon domains.
If for some reason you have trouble logging into your Hostgator cPanel you can log in
to your Hostgator dashboard and click the orange launch cPanel button to be taken to
the cPanel page or click addon domains and it’ll take you straight to the create addon
domains page.
Where it says new domain you’ll want to input the domain name that you want to be
used for your addon domain.
Just put the domain name without www or https before it.
Once you add in your domain name to be used for the addon domain just click off anywhere
on the page and it’ll automatically populate what is needed to be put in for the subdomain
and document root fields.
You’ll see where you can select where it says create an FTP account associated with
this Addon Domain.
I recommend selecting this.
That way if you ever need to login and do anything via FTP you can easily do so.
This is completely optional though and you don’t have to select this option and can
create FTP details at a later time if you need it.
When you select the create FTP option it’ll pull up the FTP details for you to input.
It’ll auto-populate the username.
Feel free to change this if you’d like.
Next, put in the password to be used for logging in via FTP.
Once done click the add domain button.
You’ll now see the addon domain with the domain name you put has been created and the
FTP account has been created if you chose to select that.
Your Hostgator addon domain has now successfully been created.
Some things I want to note is when you set this addon domain up to be used with your
website if your domain name was purchased from another domain provider you’ll want
to make sure you point your Hostgator nameservers to the domain registrar you chose.
If your addon domain was purchased via Hostgator you are good to go.
Some things to note is it can take up to 48 hours when you first register a domain name
or point your nameservers so something to keep in mind if you don’t see your site
showing or being able to access it at first.
It usually happens a lot faster than the 48 hours.
Usually within the first few hours.
I hope you found this Hostgator addon domain tutorial helpful.
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