A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own web site and records and can also be hosted with a different company if you want to use a certain feature which is not provided by your current provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site and an online store under a subdomain where clients can acquire 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'll avoid any chance of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is less risky in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our Linux semi-dedicated packages don't have a limit for the number of subdomains that you can create. Adding a new subdomain in the account takes only a couple of clicks inside the Hepsia hosting CP and throughout the process you can select the folder the subdomain is going to access if it will be different from the default one, create customized error pages, enable FrontPage Extensions if you need them or create a dedicated IP address instead of the shared server one in case you have added this upgrade to your semi-dedicated account. After the subdomain is set up, you can access logs and visitor statistics or you can swiftly jump to the site files for it within the File Manager area via fast access buttons. All subdomains that you've got in the account will be conveniently listed under their root domain, so you will be able to find and manage every single one of them effortlessly.