Setting up a new website?

[fr34k123]

Hi, i wondered if someone could offer some advice.

I currently own 3 domain names - 1 of which is linked to a fully operational website. We recently had to move web hosts after problems with our old VPS. Our old setup was WHM access with a cpanel account linked/setup for each of our domains/websites (each domain at some point was a working site). As we've only got the one website our new hosts set everything up for us and provided us with the cpanel login for our current site (we've not been given WHM access - and we haven't requested it so far).

I am wanting to set up an online community site (completely different subject matter and cms to my current site) - as we dont have whm access to setup the new account i emailed our hosts on how we go about setting the new site up - they have come back and said that once the new domain has been purchased all i need to do is go in to our current sites cpanel and create a new addon domain for the new site...

Is this the correct procedure for a completely new website - will we have new url @xxxxx.co.uk email accounts, ftp accounts, sql etc to reflect the new site by using our current sites cpanel to set things up? I want the new site to be a completely separate thing from our current site and would prefer they didn't 'share' things

we always had separate cpanel accounts for each website we ran with our previous hosts and they set things up for us - so im new to all this...

Thanks in advance for any advice/info

 

[whitey10tc]

assuming you no longer have vps or dedicated server then yes their instructions are correct.

 

[fr34k123]

assuming you no longer have vps or dedicated server then yes their instructions are correct.

We are on a VPS - so would the normal protocol be what we were used to whereby a new cpanel account is created for each new url?

 

[Infopro]

We are on a VPS - so would the normal protocol be what we were used to whereby a new cpanel account is created for each new url?

Only if that's what you want. Otherwise, you can use one cPanel account and have multiple sites that do not share anything. Except the cPanel account itself.

 

[fr34k123]

Only if that's what you want. Otherwise, you can use one cPanel account and have multiple sites that do not share anything. Except the cPanel account itself.

So if multiple sites are sharing the same cpanel account what does that mean for emails, sql, site statistics etc....

Surely with a VPS it would make more sense to have a cpanel account per domain? especially when the two websites are running completely different CMS

 

[AutumnMeadow]

Each account sharing the cpanel account would have its own separate email, sql, site stats etc...