A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every single subdomain can have its own web site and records and can even be hosted with a different company if you need to use a certain feature that is not offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site and an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can also have a forum where they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any risk of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping your sites separated is more secure in the case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting packages will permit you to set up countless subdomains for any domain address hosted within your account without any difficulty. As long as the main domain name is added, it requires two clicks to set up a subdomain and select what folder it'll open (if different from the default one), create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and a lot more. All subdomains are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for quick access and administration. By right-clicking on any of them and by using quick access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or website files for that particular subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total amount of subdomains that you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Using 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's going to take a couple of clicks to create a new subdomain and in 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're going to be able to see and manage all of them with ease. Using quick access buttons and right-click menus you'll be able to jump to the website files in the File Manager area or view logs, visitor stats and other information about any of your subdomains.