A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain name, for example name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own website and records and can even be hosted through a different company if you need to use a feature that's not offered by your current service provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website as well as an online store under a subdomain where clients can buy your products. You can even have a forum where they can comment on the products and by using subdomains rather than subfolders you are going to avoid any probability of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your sites separated is also more secure in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Shared Web Hosting
With our shared web hosting packages you are going to be able to create subdomains with just a few mouse clicks in your website hosting CP. All of them will be listed in a single place together with the domain addresses hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain in order to make their managing a lot easier. Whatever the plan that you select, you'll be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or create custom error pages along the way. You will also have access to a lot of functions for any of them with only a click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. As opposed to other providers, we have not limited the amount of subdomains which you can have even if you host just one domain address within the account.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Through our semi-dedicated server plans, you will be able to create an unrestricted number of subdomains for any one of the domains that you add as hosted in the account. It takes a few mouse clicks to set up a new subdomain and during the process you'll be able to add custom error pages for it, select if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it's going to access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains which you have inside the account will be arranged under their root domain in alphabetical order and you will be able to see and handle them without difficulty. Via fast access buttons and right-click menus you'll also be able to jump to the site files within the File Manager area or view logs, visitor stats and other information about any of your subdomains.