A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain name, such as name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own website and records and can even be hosted with a different provider if you wish to use some feature that isn't offered by your current service provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site and an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. Additionally, you can have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is also more secure in the case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Shared Hosting
When you use shared hosting plans you will be able to create subdomains with only a few clicks in your website hosting CP. All of them are going to be listed in a single location together with the domain addresses hosted in the account and arranged under their own domain in order to make their administration simpler. Regardless of the plan that you choose, you will be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages during the process. Additionally, you will have access to numerous functions for any of them with just a click, so from the very same section where you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. Unlike other providers, we have not limited the amount of subdomains which you can have even if you host one domain inside the account.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Through our semi-dedicated server plans, you'll be able to create an unlimited amount of subdomains for any one of the domains you add as hosted in the account. It will take a couple of mouse clicks to set up a new subdomain and throughout the process you're going to be able to to add unique error pages for it, pick if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP, change the default folder that it will access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains which you have inside the account are going to be arranged under their root domain in alphabetical order and you are going to be able to see and manage all of them with ease. Using fast access buttons and right-click menus you'll also be able to jump to the site files in the File Manager area or see logs, visitor statistics and other information about any of your subdomains.