Hosting multiple websites on your Web Hosting plan

Find out how to host several websites on your Web Hosting plan

Objective

You can host multiple websites on a single web hosting offer, even if the domain names are not registered with OVHcloud.

Would you like to add a new website to your web hosting?

Discover how to host different websites on your web hosting offer.

Info

If you have already created the website on your web hosting and want to associate it with a new domain name or subdomain, please refer to this guide directly.

Requirements

A compatible OVHcloud Web Hosting plan
One or more domain names
The right to modify your domain name's configuration (the DNS Zone)

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

Direct link:
Navigation path: Web Cloud > Hosting plans > Select your web hosting plan

Instructions

1 - Add a website to your web hosting offer

Click on one of the titles below to view the explanations.

Add a website with a domain name managed from your OVHcloud Control Panel

This section applies only if the domain name (and/or its active DNS zone) with which you want to create your website is in your OVHcloud Control Panel.

Click on the tabs below to view each of the 7 steps.

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Go to the page, then select the web hosting plan concerned.

Tick the Associate an existing OVHcloud domain option and click on Continue.

In the Site name field, enter the name you want to use for your website. This name will be visible only from the My sites tab of your web hosting.

Then select the domain name to associate from the drop-down menu Domain name - required that appears below.

Info

To add a subdomain, first select the domain name from the list (e.g., domain.tld). Then tick the Create a subdomain box. A text field appears for you to enter the subdomain (e.g., sub.domain.tld).

Special case: www subdomains (e.g., www.domain.tld) are automatically added as a complement to the domain name. Therefore, it is unnecessary to specify this particular subdomain in the text field.

Warning

By default, the root folder of your website is automatically created when you add the website to your web hosting. This same root folder is also generated in the storage space of your web hosting (accessible via FTP, SFTP or SSH, depending on your offer).

If you want to customise the name of the root folder, especially if the content of your website is already present in a specific folder in your storage space, you can do so by activating the Advanced configuration button.

If you wish to customise the name of the root folder or use one of the Advanced options available, activate the Advanced configuration button and proceed to Step 6. Otherwise, continue directly to Step 7.

Info

This step is optional. It is intended solely for customers wishing to customise the root folder and/or activate certain features available via the Advanced configuration button.

All these features can be activated later once the domain name has been added to your website. For this, please refer directly to this guide.

To customise the name of the root folder that will be associated with your website and will contain its files, enter the desired name in the Root folder field.

Below you will find a description of the other options. Depending on your web hosting offer, some of the options listed below may not be available for selection.

Option	Description
Country IP	Allows you to benefit from a geolocated IP address (from a list of countries) for the selected domain name. Learn more from this page.
Firewall	Allows you to activate a firewall (filtering and analysis of requests) on the selected domain name. Learn more from this page.
CDN	Allows you to activate the CDN (caching of static elements of your website, such as images) on the selected domain name. Learn more from our CDN page. By activating SSL and the CDN, you will also benefit from the HTTP/2 protocol (this protocol is activated by default in our Gravelines datacenter).

Once the Advanced configuration button is activated, you can also choose the DNS configuration mode for your domain name:

For automatic DNS configuration, leave the Automatic configuration (recommended) box ticked.
For manual DNS configuration, tick the Manual configuration box. To complete the configuration of your DNS zone, refer to the following guides:
- Web Hosting - List of IP addresses by cluster
- Edit an OVHcloud DNS zone

Warning

Choosing a 1-click module is currently unavailable from the My sites tab. To install a CMS on your website, finish adding your website by moving on to the next step, then go to the 1-click modules tab of your hosting plan, following our guide "Setting up your website with 1-click modules".

OVHcloud provides the WordPress, Joomla!, PrestaShop and Drupal modules. They allow you to have a ready-to-use website structure, automatically installed in the root folder configured previously. For more information, please refer to our documentation "Setting up your website with 1-click modules".

If you want to install a 1-click module, select your preferred module at the bottom of the page, then proceed to the next step.

choose module

Conversely, if you want to manually install your website, retrieve its files and upload them to the appropriate root folder on the storage space of your web hosting. For more information, please refer to our documentation "Publishing a website on your Web Hosting plan".

Check that all the previously entered information is correct, then click on Continue to finalise the addition of your domain name or subdomain to your website.

This addition can take up to one hour.

If you have not selected the Manual configuration option in the Advanced configuration section, the DNS configuration will be carried out automatically if the active DNS zone of your domain name is managed in your OVHcloud Control Panel.

Otherwise, refer to the following guides to manually configure your DNS zone:

Info

Modifying the DNS configuration of your domain name requires a propagation delay that can take up to 24 hours before it is fully effective.

Add a website with a domain name not managed from your OVHcloud Control Panel

This section applies only if you want to add a website with a domain name that is not present in your OVHcloud account. It may be a domain name in another OVHcloud account or registered with another provider.

Click on the tabs below to view each of the 7 steps.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Step 7

Go to the page, then select the web hosting plan concerned.

In the Site name field, enter the name you want to use for your website. This name will be visible only from the My sites tab of your web hosting.

Then enter the domain name (e.g., domain.tld) or the subdomain (e.g., sub.domain.tld) to associate in the Domain name - required field that appears below.

Tip

Warning

To customise the name of the root folder that will be associated with your website and will contain its files, enter the desired name in the Root folder field. If you do not wish to customise it, leave the field empty.

Once the information is completed, click on the Continue button.

Info

Unlike domain names directly managed from your OVHcloud Control Panel, the Advanced options are not directly available when adding a website with a domain name or subdomain not managed from your OVHcloud account.

However, all these features can be activated or modified later once the domain name or external subdomain has been added to your website. For this, please refer directly to this guide.

Adding a website with an external domain name to OVHcloud requires an additional mandatory validation. This allows us to ensure that the addition of the external domain name is legitimate. A message will then ask you to modify the DNS configuration of the domain name.

Take note of the elements displayed, then click on the Continue button. From then on, the domain name is temporarily added, giving you time to modify its DNS configuration.

Warning

You must make these changes quickly for your domain name to be correctly associated with your website. Without this action, the addition of your domain name will be cancelled and your recently created website will not be accessible.

The DNS entries of type A and TXT must be placed in the active DNS zone of your domain name for it to be associated with your website. Only the DNS entries of type AAAA are optional.

Note that if you wish to associate sub.domain.tld, you will need to create the ovhcontrol.domain.tld TXT entry and not the ovhcontrol.sub.domain.tld entry.

To find the active DNS zone of your domain name, find the DNS servers to which it is linked. You will only need to validate the domain name using the TXT field, not all its subdomains.

Warning

If you want to install a 1-click module, select your preferred module at the bottom of the page, then click on Continue to finalise the request to add your website to your web hosting.

choose module

Add a website with a new domain name that has not yet been registered

This section applies only if you want to add a website with a domain name that has not yet been registered, either with OVHcloud or with another registrar. In other words, it concerns domain names that have not yet been subscribed to.

Click on the tabs below to view each of the 5 steps.

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Go to the page, then select the web hosting plan concerned.

You are then redirected to our commercial page for domain name subscription. Choose your new domain name according to market availability. Then follow the instructions in the order process until the order confirmation. This without subscribing to a new web hosting plan in addition.

Once your order is paid and validated, wait a few moments for it to be processed.

Info

Once your domain name appears in your OVHcloud Control Panel, follow the section "Add a domain name managed from your OVHcloud Control Panel" of this guide to add your website to your web hosting.

2 - Put your website online

Once the website is declared with your domain name on your web hosting, you can put the content of your website online. As a reminder, you must perform this operation in the root folder that you defined when adding the website in your OVHcloud Control Panel.

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If you wish to add multiple websites, repeat the actions described in this guide.

We recommend that you be careful about the number of websites on your web hosting. The higher the number, the more your allocated resources will be used. Our web hosting offers page indicates the recommended number of websites you can host on your web hosting.

Go further

Setting up your website with 1-click modules

Editing an OVHcloud DNS zone

Publishing a website on your Web Hosting plan

If you would like assistance using and configuring your OVHcloud solutions, please refer to our support offers.

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