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Addon Domains vs Separate Accounts — what actually settles it
A direct answer for multi-site owners deciding how much isolation their portfolio genuinely needs: how to weigh the field, what to rule out early, and the setup we would take ourselves.
The short answer
Straight to it: keeping addon domains for your own low-stakes projects, and moving to separate accounts or a reseller plan the moment revenue, clients or ownership stop being uniform.
The working sits below: the checks, the reasoning and the trap — written for multi-site owners deciding how much isolation their portfolio genuinely needs, without the affiliate league-table theatre this topic usually attracts.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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This page is written for multi-site owners deciding how much isolation their portfolio genuinely needs. If that is you, the decision does have a right answer — it simply rarely matches what commission-funded ranking tables are paid to print.
Every addon domain inherits the parent account wholesale: one security boundary, one resource allocation, one suspension notice covering all of it. Efficient while one person owns everything, and negligent as soon as a second party has a stake. Hold that in mind and the noise in this market separates from the signal quickly.
The checks that settle it
This is the scorecard we would use — and we are content to be marked against it too:
Blast radius, meaning what else goes dark when one compromise or suspension reaches the parent account.
Contention, since every addon draws on the same CPU, memory and disk allocation.
Ownership said plainly, meaning whose site this is and whose name sits on the invoice.
How clean a backup, a restore or a handover stays once several sites are tangled together.
The mistake this market is built on
Hosting a client's or a friend's site as an addon domain on your personal account, since shared fate plus split ownership is the arrangement that turns a favour into a dispute.
It survives because it lands on newcomers: the cost is deferred, dressed up, or only shown at renewal, long after the choice was made. The one habit that beats it is to price year two rather than year one.
The verdict, unhedged
Keeping addon domains for your own low-stakes projects, and moving to separate accounts or a reseller plan the moment revenue, clients or ownership stop being uniform.
In concrete terms that is our Reseller 1 option: one flat rate carrying the essentials (SSL, migration, copies, mail) this market prefers to bill separately, with in-place upgrades ready when the work picks up.
NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching sit under every tier, the smallest plan included — that is the floor here, not an upgrade.
Check first, trust after
A host worth your money survives scrutiny: check the renewal figure is published up front rather than tucked into a footnote, put a real question to support at an inconvenient hour and judge the reply, read the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a legitimate business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — bring a live site over (the free migration makes that easy), run it for two real weeks, and let ordinary use answer what no sales page can.
Our interest, declared up front
This is a host writing about hosting, and we would rather say so plainly. No manufactured neutrality, no leaderboard paid for by referral cheques. Honesty traded for trust — and it reads better anyway.
The rate you register at is the rate you renew at, so year two costs precisely what year one did — nothing lying in wait on the invoice.
- Checks you can run again yourself
- Renewal rates published, not footnoted
- A free migration makes the trial easy
- Refund terms with no small print
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
The verdict, turned into an order
The Reseller 1 plan is this page's conclusion in product form — one rate, essentials inside, upgradeable in place.
A company you can look up
UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host whose filing you can read before committing to anything.
Written out of real conversations
Every check here traces back to real exchanges with multi-site owners deciding how much isolation their portfolio genuinely needs, not to a features spreadsheet.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The hardware other hosts keep behind premium tiers is simply the baseline build here.
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform — today's choice never boxes tomorrow in.
Support you can test before paying
Put a hard question to us before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the best it will ever treat you.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
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Write the job down in one sentence
Write the workload and the audience in one line — for multi-site owners deciding how much isolation their portfolio genuinely needs, that line alone usually removes half the candidate plans.
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Compare on what year two costs
Introductory rates are the oldest device in this market; rank hosts by the second year instead and the order rearranges itself at once.
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Run a real trial inside the refund window
Putting your own site on the platform answers what no review can, and free migration plus the refund terms take the risk out of trying.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- People on the support desk every hour of every day
- The name's first year included when you order annually
- WordPress Toolkit, with the updates seen to for you
- Your existing site brought across by our engineers, at no charge
- WebP image optimisation built in, at no extra charge
- DDoS filtering absorbed at the network edge
- A renewal figure identical to the one you registered at
- No set-up charge at any point, and no joining fee
- cPanel, which is what most of the industry already runs
- A daily copy, with restores you run yourself from the panel
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
What is the realistic failure mode?
Losing everything at once. An abandoned plugin on the site you forgot about hands an attacker the whole account, and all six domains are defaced, blacklisted or suspended within the hour. A few pounds a month keeps them separate, while untangling a shared incident takes a weekend.
When does a separate account earn its place?
The moment a site earns money, carries a brand worth defending, or belongs to somebody else. With a personal collection, the multi-site allowances here make putting everything together sensible. Once a paying client is involved, a reseller account settles it.
If I cancel, what becomes of my site and files?
They remain yours. Download a full copy from the panel whenever you like, before or during cancellation. Names stay registered in your name for the term you paid for and can move to any registrar once the standard 60-day window has passed.
Is the free SSL certificate genuinely free?
Entirely, on every plan. The certificate is issued as soon as the name points here and reissues itself well before it lapses. On encryption it matches any paid DV certificate — the paid options exist for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
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