A subdomain is the section of the web address which is before a domain and you've quite possibly seen a lot of subdomains while exploring world wide web. For instance, many websites like Wikipedia have versions a number of languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org etc. The main benefit of using a subdomain is that it can have a separate site and its own records, so you can even host it on a different server. The practical use is that one could have a supplementary site, such as an e-learning portal for students as well as the main school website. If you use subdomains as an alternative to subfolders, it's going to be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a certain website, not mentioning that it's going to be more secure to have the sites separate from each other.

Subdomains in Web Hosting

Each and every web hosting plan which we supply will enable you to create many subdomains with no more than a few mouse clicks within 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 track of them all. Furthermore, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, and much more. While creating a new subdomain, you'll also have a number of options that you can select from - define the default access folder, set unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you'll have is totally up to you since we have not restricted this feature for any of our plans.