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Some of you have purchased more domain slots in your plan that you may be currently using. If so this is how to add additional domains to your plan.

Very Important: Email me with the domain name you have added so I may add it to DNS tables.

Log into your Registrar account (where you bought the domain name).
Set the DNS servers to:

ns1.hostdns4u.com
209.216.201.2
ns2.hostdns4u.com
209.126.236.2

1) Log into Plesk as Your Account Name.

2) Click on Add New Domain.

3) Domain Name: Just add the domain you wish to add, leave allow www access checked if you want it. Unless you have templates for making new domains just leave Create domain without template alone. Unless you have purchased an IP address then just used the shared IP of the server. Be sure the default of Proceed to hosting setup is checked and Click OK.

4) Hosting type: The next screen appears. At this point you must choose what you want to do with the domain. Here is a brief explanation.
A) Physical Hosting: This is normally what is chosen. It means you want to be able to access the domain as a normal website.
B) Standard forwarding: This allows you to set up a domain that is forward to another website or domain. Used if you have more than one domain name for the same website or wish to point a domain name to an internal page of another site.
C) Frame Forwarding: This allows you to point one domain name to another site and when someone visits this site, the URL never changes.
Make you choice and click ok.

5) Physical Hosting Setup Page:
A) IP Address: Leave the IP on Shared unless you have purchased a unique IP for this domain.
B) Preferences: Check SSL Support even if you don't plan to use it.
a) Create a user name for FTP Login.
b) Create a password for FTP Login and enter it twice to be sure you have it correct. I cannot retrieve this password, so you must write it down and save it.
c) Hard Disk Quota: Choose here is you wish to restrict the amount of hard disk space this site has on the server. (This is not bandwidth but total file size allowed)

C) FrontPage support: Skip this section unless you are using Front Page to author your website.
a) FrontPage support: Check this to enable the use of FP extensions on this website.
b) FrontPage over SSL support: Check this if you own your own SSL certificate and plan to have secure pages on your own site. This has nothing to do with the shared access on secure-ss.com
c) FrontPage authoring: Check this box to allow being able to log on and us Front Page live on the website.
d) FrontPage Administrator's Login: This is your user name to log on live to the site for FP authoring and create a password and enter it twice to be sure it is correct. Again, I can't retrieve this password for you so please write it down.

D) Services: Check all services you wish to use on the website. The most common ones to enable are CGI Support, PHP support and Web statistics (accessible via password protected directory '/plesk-stat/' ).
Add other services that are needed.
If you don't understand the other ones you probably don't need them at this point, however it does no harm to enable items that are not used, so you may just want to enable every one of them.
Make your choice and Click Ok.

You are returned to the Domain Page
Please use the help system and look around here. There are few things you probably want to set up right away.

LIMITS: Click on the Limits Icon and set the maximum bandwidth you want this domain to use. If you don't set this to some value it will use all the bandwidth allocated to your main account. So limit it to something reasonable.
You may also want to restrict other resources depending on what you may have sold to another client.

Domain Administrator: Here you can restrict what your client is allowed to change by logging into the control panel as their domain name. One thing you should do is assign them a password if you want them access to their account at all.

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