A subdomain is part of a web address that's under the main domain, such as name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own web site and records and can even be hosted with a different company if you wish to use a certain feature that's not provided by your current service provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. You can also have a forum where they can comment on the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you are going to avoid any probability of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is less risky in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Hosting
Every single hosting plan which we offer will allow you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a couple of mouse clicks within your hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the area in which you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to easily keep tabs on all of them. In addition, you can access lots of functions for any of the subdomains through right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, and more. While creating a new subdomain, you'll also have numerous options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or select if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. What number of subdomains you will have is totally up to you as we haven't restricted this feature for any of our plans.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
Through our semi-dedicated server plans, you're going to be able to create an unlimited amount of subdomains for any of the domains you add as hosted in the account. It's going to take a couple of mouse clicks to create a new subdomain and throughout the process you'll be able to add tailor-made error pages for it, select if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it'll access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains you have within the account are going to be grouped under their root domain from a to z and you're going to be able to see and handle them with ease. By using quick access buttons and right-click menus you'll also be able to jump to the website files within the File Manager area or view logs, visitor stats and other information about any of your subdomains.