Hosted Domains
What exactly are Hosted Domains? What is the difference between a regular domain name and a hosted domain name?
If you want to make a web site, you need 2 things - a domain name and a website hosting plan for it. The domain registration is the actual website address which you type in a web browser to access a site, while the hosting space is where your site data is going to be. These are 2 closely related, but separate services, although many people believe that registering the domain name is enough. Much like the disk space and the monthly traffic features that a given web hosting plan features, there are a certain number of registered domains that you can add as hosted which means that you can have the web content for them in some account even when the domains are actually registered using a different company. In technical terms, it does not matter whether a domain name is registered and hosted with the exact same company or is registered with one company and directed to another one - either way your sites will function in exactly the same way.
Hosted Domains in Shared Hosting
When you use Linux shared packages you can host a different amount of domain addresses, no matter whether you register them with our company or through some other company. If you host only a few domain names, you'll likely use less system resources, so you can go for a lower-end plan, which will be more affordable. If you choose to add more domain addresses to your account eventually, you can add additional slots through your web hosting Control Panel and keep the current plan or upgrade the entire plan and use the extra resources for the new domain names. Each of the upgrades will take only a few clicks and is activated immediately. Since registering and hosting a domain address are 2 different things, there isn't any limit how many domains you can register no matter the plan you’ve signed up for.