Domain Configuration

Removing Domains

To remove a domain, do the following:

1. Select Domain Info link in Domain Settings menu on the left.
2. Click the Delete icon in the Domain name field at the top of the page.
3. Confirm the deletion by clicking "Yes, I agree with the above".
4. Choose whether you would like to preserve the content of the domain's directory.

• If you choose to leave web content, all this website will remain on the server and will be accessible by FTP.
• If you choose to remove web content, all this website and it's directory will be permanently deleted from the server.

Instant Domain Aliases

An instant domain alias is an additional web address that gives access to your website when you don't have a real domain name or when your real domain name is temporarily unavailable. Instant domain aliases are generated randomly based on your provider's domain name and can't be changed.
To enable or disable access to your website by instant domain alias:

1. Select Quick Access in Account menu.
2. Click the Web Options icon to go to your web options page.
3. Select the domain if you have more than one.
4. Click Edit next to Web Service.
5. At the bottom of the Web Service page that appears, enable or disable Instant access domain alias.

Creating Subdomains

A subdomain is a lower level domain. It is added on the left of the domain name, e.g. subdomain.example.com. You can create as many subdomains as allowed by the plan. Domains and subdomains have equal functional capabilities, including web site management, e-mail service, FTP, dedicated IPs, etc., but subdomains do not have their own DNS zones and usually cost less.

To create a subdomain, go through the following steps:

1. Select Domain Info link in Domain Settings menu in user's Control Panel.
2. Click Add in the Sub Domains field. You will be asked to enter the subdomain name:
   
   
3. Enter the new subdomain. It will be displayed in the Subdomain field of the Domain Settings page.

Shared and Dedicated IP Hosting

This is also called Virtual Hosting (Shared IP) and IP Based Hosting (Dedicated IP).

• Shared IP hosting - one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a domain is available only by its domain name;
• Dedicated IP hosting - one IP address is assigned to one domain. To access a domain you can use either its IP address or its domain name.

To change the type of IP, do the following:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu
2. If you have several domains, choose the one to enable virtual FTP for.
3. Click Change to Shared IP in the IP Address field:
   
   
4. If prompted, confirm the change by clicking "Yes, I agree with the above".

IMPORTANT: after you switch between shared and dedicated IPs, it will take several hours before the domain becomes available at the new IP address.

Domains on dedicated IPs don't have instant access aliases.

You can use an IP-only server. To create it, choose "no domain" during signup. Following the signup, you should change IP to Dedicated.

Domain Aliasing

Domain aliasing is creating domain names that point to other domains. For example, if your domain name is example.com, you can register another domain name, e.g. example.net and have it point to the location of example.com. This means, every Internet user who goes to example.net will land in example.com.

A domain alias may have:

• its own DNS zone;
• custom DNS records;
• separate mail service.

Configuring new domain as a web hosting/mail service alias for an existing domain

To do this:

1. Choose Add New Domain in Domain Settings menu.
2. Enter name for your alias and click Submit:

   

3. Click Continue. Then on the Options page choose settings exactly as shown on the below screenshot. Click Submit.

   

Disabling web hosting/mail service alias for a domain

To do this:

1. Go to Edit Domain page:

   

2. Click the Trash icon near Mail Service Alias/Alias to existing hosting domain.

Turning domain/mail service alias to full-featured web/mail hosting domain

To do this:

1. Go to Edit Domain page.
2. Click the Trash icon near Mail Service Alias/Alias to existing hosting domain as in the above subsection.
3. Click the Off icon near Mail Service/Web Service:

   

4. Mail/Web Service will become enabled:

   

Registering domains without web/mail service to be considered later either for hosting or for aliasing

To do this:

1. Choose Add New Domain in Domain Settings menu.
2. Enter name for your domain and click Submit.
3. Click Continue and on the Options page choose settings exactly as shown on the below screenshot. Click Submit.

   

4. Later on the Edit Domain page turn on either the Service buttons or the Alias buttons.

Server Aliasing

Server aliases are additional names for your virtual host. Unlike domain aliases, they are not added to your DNS zone, and are registered only with Apache. For instance, if your virtual host name is example.com and you also would like it to be available at www.example.com, you should add www server alias to the example.com domain.

To add a server alias, do the following:

1. Select Quick Access in Account menu.
2. Click the Web Options icon to go to your web options page.
3. Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
4. Scroll down to the Server alias field and click the Add icon.
5. Enter server alias. It will be added to the list of server aliases for this virtual host name.