What are the difference between Subdomains, Aliases and Addon Domains?

Subdomain

A subdomain is a secondary website with its own content and uses the same domain as the main website. The subdomain name looks like private.domain.com and help.domain.com.

You can use cPanel to create subdomains and the function is free in all 2MHost web hosting packages.

Domain Alias

An alias domain is not a separate website.  It is just a masked forwarder to the main website of your hosting account; Aliases are commonly used when you need domain.net shows the same content or website of domain.com. We use 2mhosting.com as an alias of 2mhost.com!

In other words, domain alias is used when you want 2 domains to show the same website.

You can use cPanel to create aliases, and the function is free in all 2MHost web hosting packages.

Addon domains

An addon domain is a cPanel function that lets you host multiple websites in a single hosting account each with its own content and email. When we mention how many websites you can host in a single hosting account, we mean how many addon domains you are allowed to create in each hosting account + the main website.

You can use cPanel to create addon domains, addon domain's function is enabled in Personal-x2 packages and above.

Important notes:

• We can't convert a separate hosting account to addon domain of another hosting account, in other words; we can't combine hosting accounts under one big hosting account.
• We can't convert or replace the main domain to addon domain or replace addon domains.

Which is better, to have a separate hosting account for each website or host multiple websites in single hosting account?

We always recommend using separate hosting accounts for each website, for 3 reasons:

• Addon domains share the same server resources like space, RAM and CPU allowed to the main website, one busy website may slowdown the rest.
• Addon domains do not come with their own separate cPanel access. which makes websites harder to manage if websites belong to several owners.
• Web Hosting accounts are really cheap nowadays, there is not much saving in hosting multiple websites in single hosting account equal to the extra layer of management complications you will add.