A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain name, such as name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own website and records and can even be hosted with a different provider if you want to use a certain feature which is not provided by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website along with an online store under a subdomain where clients can acquire your products. You can even have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you will avoid any chance of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is also less risky in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Each cloud hosting package which we provide will enable you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks within your web hosting CP. They'll all be listed in the area where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep tabs on every one of them. In addition, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains through right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the website files, and much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you're also going to have lots of options that you can select from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or choose if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. What number of subdomains you will have is entirely up to you because we have not limited this feature for any of our packages.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy a semi-dedicated server package, you are going to be able to create as many subdomains as you wish as this feature is unrestricted. Considering that the website hosting plans are quite powerful, we have decided not to put any limit on the number of subdomains. Our sophisticated Hepsia CP will enable you to create a new subdomain with no more than a few clicks, to select which folder it will access in the account, to enable FrontPage Extensions for it, to set up unique error pages, to create a shared or a dedicated IP address if you have one, and more. To make it easier for you, all of the subdomains will be listed under their root domain, allowing you to easily see and manage them. With quick access links, you will also have the ability to open the site files for each of the subdomains that you have or view its DNS records.