A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since 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 provider if you need to use a specific feature which isn't offered by your current service provider. An 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. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any probability of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the websites separated is also more secure in case there is a script security breach.
Subdomains in Shared Hosting
Every single shared hosting package we supply will allow you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a few clicks within your web hosting Control Panel. They are going to be listed in the area where you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so you can very easily monitor all of them. In addition, you can access a lot of functions for any of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for example, you can view or modify their DNS records, access the site files, plus much more. While creating a new subdomain, you'll also have a number of options that you can pick from - define the default access folder, create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or select if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. What number of subdomains you will have is 100 % up to you because we haven't restricted this feature for any one of our packages.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are able to create as many subdomains as you wish with any one of our Linux semi-dedicated packages as we haven't set an upper limit for this feature. The Hepsia web hosting CP will allow you to add a new subdomain with 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, select the IP address the subdomain will use from the shared and dedicated ones which are offered in your account, activate FrontPage Extensions, add an SSL certificate, plus much more. Even if you set up a large number of subdomains, you'll be able to keep track of all of them with ease because they will be listed in alphabetical order under their main domain. For any of them, you can also access the website files or check out logs and usage statistics using instant access buttons.