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Addon domains

Bring your own domain and host a separate site on it.

What an addon domain is

An addon domain is a separate website hosted alongside your primary account but served from its own domain name with its own document root. It behaves and resolves like an independent site, using the same panel and resources under a different URL.

If your primary site is yourname.zizbe.com, an addon domain might be mycoolproject.com, served from public_html/mycoolproject/.

What you need first

  1. A domain name you own, registered with any registrar (Namecheap, Porkbun, Cloudflare, and so on).
  2. Access to that registrar’s DNS settings.

Step 1: Point the domain at zizhost

At your registrar’s DNS panel, either:

  • Change the nameservers to ours (the hosting panel will show the nameservers to use on the addon-domain screen), or
  • Add an A record for @ (root) and www pointing at the IP shown on the addon-domain screen.

DNS changes take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to propagate.

Step 2: Add the addon in the hosting panel

  1. Open the hosting panel and click Addon Domains.
  2. New Domain Name: the domain you own (e.g. mycoolproject.com).
  3. The panel auto-fills Subdomain and Document Root from it. Accept the defaults unless you need different paths.
  4. FTP user: optional, only needed if you want a separate FTP login for this site.
  5. Click Add Domain.

Step 3: Upload your site

Use the file manager to upload your PHP application to public_html/mycoolproject/. Apache will serve it on the new domain automatically.

Step 4: HTTPS

Once DNS has propagated and the domain resolves to our server, the panel can issue a free ZeroSSL certificate from the SSL/TLS section. Pick the domain and click Issue.

Addon vs. subdomain

  • Subdomain: a part of an existing domain (blog.example.com). Inherits the parent domain.
  • Addon: a separate domain entirely (differentname.com) hosted on the same account.