A subdomain is the section of the web address that's before a domain name and you have almost certainly seen a lot of subdomains while surfing around world wide web. As an illustration, many websites like Wikipedia have versions a number of languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org etc. The main benefit of using a subdomain is that it can have a separate site and its own records, so you are able to even host it on a separate server. The practical use is that you can have a supplementary website, such as an e-learning portal for students in addition to the main school website. If you are using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders, it's going to be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a particular website, not mentioning that it's going to be more secure to have the sites separate from one another.

Subdomains in Cloud Web Hosting

When you use cloud web hosting packages you will be able to create subdomains with a couple of mouse clicks in your web hosting CP. All of them are going to be listed in a single location together with the domains hosted in the account and arranged under their own domain in order to make their administration a lot easier. Regardless of the plan that you pick, you'll be able to create numerous subdomains and set their access folder or create custom error pages in the process. You will also have access to lots of functions for any of them with only a mouse click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. In contrast to other companies, we have not limited the number of subdomains that you can have even if you host only one domain address inside the account.

Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers

With our semi-dedicated server plans, you'll be able to create an unrestricted number of subdomains for any one of the domains which you add as hosted in the account. It will take a few mouse clicks to create a new subdomain and throughout the process you're going to be able to to add unique error pages for it, decide 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 you've got inside the account are going to be grouped under their root domain in alphabetical order and you are going to be able to see and handle all of them without difficulty. Via quick access buttons and right-click menus you'll be able to jump to the website files within the File Manager area or see logs, visitor statistics and other information about any of your subdomains.