A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain name, such as name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own web site and records and can even be hosted with a different company if you need to use a certain feature that isn't offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site and an online store under a subdomain where clients can acquire your products. You can also have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you'll avoid any chance of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the sites separated is more secure in case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Web Hosting
Our web hosting plans will allow you to create hundreds of subdomains for every domain name hosted inside your account without any problem. As long as the main domain is added, it takes two clicks to set up a subdomain and choose what folder it will open (if different from the default one), set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and much more. All subdomains will be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for easy access and administration. By right-clicking on any of them and by using quick access buttons you can see the error logs, visitor statistics or website files for that particular subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total number of subdomains that you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server plan, you'll be able to create as many subdomains as you wish simply because this feature is unrestricted. Considering that the website hosting packages are rather powerful, we've decided not to put any limit on the number of subdomains. Our advanced Hepsia CP will allow you to create a new subdomain with no more than a few mouse clicks, to choose which folder it'll access inside 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. To make it easier for you, all subdomains are going to be listed under their root domain, so you can easily see and handle them. With fast access links, you'll be able to open the website files for any one of the subdomains that you have or view its DNS records.