How to Deal With Downtime During Addon Domains Propagation?
Unfortunately, you can prevent the downtime while moving the website for an add-on domain. cPanel won’t let adding an additional domain name to your account unless the DNS records contain Hostvento information and the information has completed propagating, or sent to every server that supports the Internet.
Propagation may occur anywhere and might take anything from a few hours to several days.
The website files for the addon domain can be uploaded without waiting for propagation to finish.
To ensure that it’s done correctly, a few more measures must be taken.
In case your addon domain already has a website, leave that website in place and complete the following:
1. Log in to your Hostvento account.
2. Click on cPanel. If there is more than one domain associated with your Hostvento account, click on the correct domain link, then enter your cPanel password if needed.
3. Go to the Files section, click on the File Manager icon.
4. The Directory Selection pop-up will appear. Make sure the Web Root (public_html/www) option is selected and click on the Go button.
In case in the File Manager window, the pop-up doesn’t appear click the yellow folder icon next to /public_html in the left column.
5. Click on the New Folder icon from the top menu.
6. Enter the New Folder Name using the same name as the addon domain in the New Folder pop-up, but without the “www.” For example, if you are connecting www.cat.com as an addon domain name, you should enter cat.com as the New Folder Name.
7. For the above addon domain name cat.com, upload all the files to the new subfolder /cat.com.
8. Open your browser and type the below url in the address bar: www.primarydomain.com/addondomain.com. For example, if your primary domain is dog.com and you want to look into the folder /cat.com, you would type: www.dog.com/cat.com
9. Check if the addon domain’s website is working properly.
10. After confirming if the site is functioning correctly on the new server, go to the registrar and switch the DNS entries to:
ns1.hostvento.com
ns2. hostvento.com
11. After a time span of few hours, go to cPanel and try to connect the addon domain. If you can’t do this, it means the propagation is still incomplete. Keep on trying until you’re successful.
12. When your addon domain is connected to your Hostvento account, go back to your previous host and remove the old copy of the addon domain files.
In this way, you can upload the addon domain’s website files.
