A subdomain is the part of the web address which is before a domain and you've most likely seen a lot of subdomains while browsing world wide web. For instance, many websites such as Wikipedia have versions in various languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org and so on. The advantage of using a subdomain is that it can have an independent website and its own records, so you're able to even host it on a separate server. The practical use is that you can have a supplementary site, like an e-learning portal for college students on top of the primary school site. If you use subdomains instead of subfolders, it will be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a certain site, not mentioning that it's going to be more secure to have the websites separate from one another.
Subdomains in Web Hosting
Each web hosting plan we offer will enable you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a few clicks in your website hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the section where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep an eye on every one of them. Additionally, you can access lots of functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the site files, plus much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have lots of options that you can select from - specify the default access folder, create customized 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 are going to have is totally up to you because we have not limited this feature for any of our plans.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
With our semi-dedicated server plans, you'll be able to create an unlimited amount of subdomains for any of the domains which you add as hosted in the account. It takes a few clicks to set up a new subdomain and in the process you'll be able to add custom-made error pages for it, pick if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it will access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains you've got within the account will be grouped under their root domain in alphabetical order and you will be able to see and manage them with ease. Through instant access buttons and right-click menus you'll be able to jump to the website files within the File Manager area or check logs, visitor stats and other info about any of your subdomains.