A subdomain is part of a web address that's under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own site and records and can also be hosted using a different provider if you need to use a feature that is not offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can purchase your products. You can even have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you'll avoid any chance of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your sites separated is more secure in the case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Website Hosting

Every website hosting package that we provide will permit you to create many subdomains with no more than a couple of mouse clicks within your website hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the area where you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, to help you very easily keep an eye on them all. Additionally, you can access many functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the site files, and a lot more. While creating a new subdomain, you're also going to have a number of options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, set unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you'll have is totally up to you because we have not restricted this feature for any one of our plans.

Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you purchase a semi-dedicated server plan, you'll be able to create as many subdomains as you want as this feature is unrestricted. Considering that the hosting plans are very powerful, we have decided not to put any cap on the number of subdomains. Our advanced Hepsia CP will permit you to create a new subdomain with no more than a few clicks, to select which folder it is going to access in the account, to activate FrontPage Extensions for it, to create custom error pages, to create a shared or a dedicated IP address if you have one, and more. For your convenience, all the subdomains are going to be listed under their root domain, so that you can effortlessly see and control them. Using fast access links, you will also be able to open the website files for any of the subdomains that you have or check out its DNS records.