Even after taking more than an hour to read the various posts and sticky's, I still need some help / clarification.
First, I know that one solution to having "multiple" websites is to bite the bullet and upgrade to a reseller account. It's certainly the cleanest solution, and compared to any other web hosting company it is very affordable.
That having been said, if one is willing to share the bandwidth and diskspace limits of their non-reseller plan, I'm trying to figure out if a non-reseller plan can be configured to effectively appear as "separate" multiple sites.
Some definitions for the rest of the email:
www.MyMainAccount.com is the main account hosted at Surpass
www.MyOtherDomain1.com is another domain name I have registered
www.MyOtherDomainX.com is yet another domain name I have registered
Right now, without any subdomains or add-on domains, I can go to my domain registars management console and forward MyOtherDomainX.com to MyMainAccount.com/domainX/ and get the user to the "domainX" info. And I have two choices at my domain registars management console, one is a direct fowards and the user "sees" they are at MyMainAccount.com/domainX URL, the other way somewhat cloaks it by using frames to do the redirection. The reason why I say somewhat cloaks it is that when one hovers over any relative link, they see the real URL that shows the "full path" that includes the MyMainAccount.com/domainX/...
So, heres the questions...
I know that if I add a domain for MyOtherDomain.com (using the "folder" MyOtherDomainX) and set up all the DNS stuff, it really is a subdomain, and that I can get to the site by either using MyOtherDomainX.com or MyOtherDomainX.MyMainAccount.com or MyMainAccount.com/MyOtherDomain, but having done this when a user enters the site with the first method (i.e. via MyOtherDomainX.com), will all my relative links show up as MyOtherDomainX.com/xxxx ??? If yes, then are the URLs displayed in the browser the same, and thus if they save it as a favorite reference the MyOtherDomainX/xxxx URL?
If the answer to these answers are "yes", then it seems to me the only downside to using the add on feature is that you only have one cpanel to administer "multiple" sites (actually you are only administering your one web site), and people have different ways to access your site if they knew it was actually set up as a subdomain (but then again, how would they know?).
I hope these questions make sense. I truly did try to find the answers, but no one really seemed to ask the same questions.