Buyer's Guide
Addon Domains vs Separate Accounts: a straight buyer's guide
A straight answer for owners of several sites deciding how far apart those sites ought to be kept: how to weigh the options, what to leave on the shelf, and the setup we would order.
Straight answer first
The short answer: go with addon domains for your own low-stakes collection, and separate accounts — or a reseller plan — the moment ownership, money or clients start to differ.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for owners of several sites deciding how far apart those sites ought to be kept, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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This guide is written for owners of several sites deciding how far apart those sites ought to be kept. If that describes you, the decision has a right answer — it just is not the one the comparison-table trade is paid to hand out.
An addon domain shares everything with its parent account: the same security perimeter, the same suspension, the same resource pot. That is thrifty when one person owns the lot and reckless the moment two do. Keep that in view and most of the noise in this market sorts itself into signal.
The tests that actually decide it
Here is the scorecard we would use — and the one we invite you to hold us to:
How far the damage spreads when one break-in or suspension hits the shared account.
Sites elbowing each other for the same pot of memory, CPU and disk.
Who actually owns each site, once you say it out loud.
How tidy backups, restores and handing a site over stay afterwards.
The mistake this market is built upon
Parking somebody else's site as an addon domain on your own personal account; mixed ownership plus a shared fate is the setup that ends friendships.
It survives because it works on first-time buyers — the cost is deferred, disguised or discovered at renewal, long after the comparison was made. Pricing the second year rather than the first is the one habit that defuses most of it.
The verdict, plainly
Addon domains for your own low-stakes collection, and separate accounts — or a reseller plan — the moment ownership, money or clients start to differ.
In concrete terms, that is our Reseller 1 option: one flat price, stocked with the essentials (SSL, migration, backups, mail) this market loves to sell separately, and upgradeable in place when the job grows.
NVMe disks and LiteSpeed caching sit on the shelf at every price point, not behind a premium tier.
Try it before you trust it
Any host worth ordering from survives inspection: check the renewal price is printed on the tag rather than in a footnote, ask support a real question at an awkward hour and read the reply, comb the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a genuine business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
Why we can afford to give a straight answer
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
Backups run every day on every plan, and putting a file or a database back takes one click from the panel.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Matched to this verdict
The Reseller 1 plan is this page's recommendation made concrete — one flat price, essentials included, upgradeable in place.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with owners of several sites deciding how far apart those sites ought to be kept, not off a feature spreadsheet.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
Put down what the site has to do and for whom — for owners of several sites deciding how far apart those sites ought to be kept, that one sentence usually settles half the plan choice by itself.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
A live trial with your own site answers what no review can, and the free migration plus the refund policy make that trial genuinely risk-free.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
- WebP image optimisation built in and costing nothing
- DDoS filtering handled out at the network edge
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- Nothing added at setup — no joining fee, ever
- cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- NVMe SSD storage on every shelf, not just the top one
- SSH, Git and Composer on the plans built for developers
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
What really goes wrong when addon domains pile up?
Everything fails together. One neglected plugin on the fourth site lets an attacker into the account, and all six sites go down, get infected or get suspended at once. Keeping them apart is cheap; cleaning up a shared disaster is not.
At what point is a separate account worth paying for?
As soon as a site earns money, carries a reputation, or belongs to someone else. For a personal collection our multi-site plans make the sums close; for anything with a client attached, a reseller account settles the question.
What happens to my files if I leave?
The site and the files stay yours. Pull a full backup from the panel whenever you like, before or during cancellation. Domains remain 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 SSL certificate genuinely free?
On every plan, with nothing held back. The certificate is issued the moment your domain points here and reissues itself well before expiry. The encryption is the same as a paid DV certificate — paid tiers exist only for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
Who actually runs the company?
Hosting Seller is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real business with a public record and terms published under English law. Looking that up is worth doing about any host before you hand over your domain.
How do I read the mail when I am away from the desk?
Webmail opens in any browser, and every mailbox also speaks IMAP, POP and SMTP — so the mail app on your phone, the client on your desktop and webmail all show the same messages in the same order.
Does hosting come with mailboxes?
It does — mailboxes on your own domain ship with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP access and spam filtering fitted as standard. There is also standalone email hosting for domains whose website lives somewhere else entirely.
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