A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own web site and records and can even be hosted using a different provider if you need to use a specific feature which is not provided by your current service provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a business site and an online store under a subdomain where clients can purchase your products. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you will avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the sites separated is also less risky in case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Web Hosting
If you acquire a web hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to create subdomains with ease through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. We've decided not to restrict their amount, so in case you host only one domain address in the account, you're going to be able to create as many subdomains as you would like and have a different site for every one of them. During the creation of a subdomain, you'll be able to pick the folder in the account that it's going to open, create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions and error logs, select a server shared IP address or a dedicated one if you have such, and much more. All hosted domain names and the subdomains that you create for them are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order in one spot and you'll be able to access many functions for every one of them through right-click context menus - records, files, etc.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you buy a semi-dedicated server package, you are going to be able to create as many subdomains as you'd like simply because this feature is unlimited. Since the web hosting plans are quite powerful, we have decided not to set any cap on the amount of subdomains. Our innovative Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to create a new subdomain with no more than a few mouse clicks, to choose which folder it'll access in the account, to activate FrontPage Extensions for it, to create custom 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 of the subdomains will be listed under their root domain, so that you can very easily see and manage them. Using fast access links, you'll also be able to open the website files for any one of the subdomains that you have or see its DNS records.