A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every single subdomain could have its own web site and records and can even be hosted with a different provider if you want to use some feature that is not offered by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website and an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. You can also have a forum where they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains rather than subfolders you will avoid any probability of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is less risky in case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Each and every cloud hosting plan that we provide will enable you to create many subdomains with no more than a few clicks inside your web hosting CP. They're going to be listed in the area where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you can easily keep an eye on all of them. In addition, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains via right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the site files, and a lot more. While creating a new subdomain, you are also going to have numerous options that you can choose from - determine the default access folder, set unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. How many subdomains you are going to have is totally up to you as we haven't restricted this feature for any of our packages.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
You’ll be able to create as many subdomains as you wish with any one of our semi-dedicated servers because we haven't set an upper limit for this feature. The Hepsia website hosting CP allows you to add a new subdomain with only a few mouse clicks and you are going to be able to access a variety of advanced features during the process - modify the default access folder, choose the IP address the subdomain will use from the shared and dedicated ones that are provided in your account, activate FrontPage Extensions, add an SSL certificate, and much more. Even if you set up a huge amount of subdomains, you are going to be able to keep track of them with ease because they will be listed in alphabetical order under their main domain. For any one of them, you can even access the website files or see logs and usage statistics using quick access buttons.