A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain, such as name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every single subdomain can have its own website and records and can even be hosted with a different company if you need to use some feature that is not offered by your current service provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site along with an online store under a subdomain where clients can purchase your products. You can even have a forum where they can comment on the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you will avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your sites separated is more secure in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Web Hosting
Every web hosting package which we supply will permit you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a couple of mouse clicks in your website 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 very easily keep an eye on all of them. Furthermore, you can access many functions for any of the subdomains via right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the website files, and more. While creating a new subdomain, you will also have lots of options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, set customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. What number of subdomains you will have is 100 % up to you since we haven't limited this feature for any of our plans.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you acquire a semi-dedicated server package, you will be able to create as many subdomains as you would like because this feature is unrestricted. Considering that the website hosting plans are rather powerful, we have decided not to set any cap on the number of subdomains. Our state-of-the-art Hepsia Control Panel will enable you to create a new subdomain with no more than a few mouse clicks, to choose which folder it will access in the account, to activate FrontPage Extensions for it, to create unique error pages, to set a shared or a dedicated IP address if you have one, and a lot more. For your convenience, all subdomains will be listed under their root domain, so that you can very easily see and manage them. Through fast access links, you'll have the ability to open the website files for each of the subdomains that you have or see its DNS records.