A subdomain is the section of the web address which is before a domain name and you have almost certainly seen a lot of subdomains while surfing around the Internet. As an illustration, many websites like Wikipedia have versions in different languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org etc. The advantage of using a subdomain is that it can have an independent site and its own records, so you are able to even host it on another server. The practical use is that you can have a supplementary site, such as an e-learning portal for college students on top of the primary school website. If you work with subdomains instead of subfolders, it'll be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a particular site, not mentioning that it'll be more secure to have the sites separate from each other.

Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers

Using our semi-dedicated server plans, you will be able to create an unlimited amount of subdomains for any one of the domains which you add as hosted in the account. It's going to take a couple of clicks to set up a new subdomain and throughout the process you are going to be able to add custom error pages for it, pick if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it will access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains you have inside the account will be arranged under their root domain in alphabetical order and you are going to be able to see and control them with ease. Via fast access buttons and right-click menus you will also be able to jump to the website files in the File Manager section or check logs, visitor stats and other info about any one of your subdomains.