A subdomain is the part of the web address that is before a domain and you've most likely seen a lot of subdomains while exploring the Internet. As an illustration, many sites such as Wikipedia have versions in several languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org etc. The advantage of using a subdomain is that it can have a separate site and its own records, so you can even host it on another server. The practical use is that one could have a supplementary site, like an e-learning portal for students in addition to the main school site. If you work with subdomains as an alternative to subfolders, it's going to be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a particular site, not mentioning that it's going to be more safe to have the sites separate from each other.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
When you use cloud hosting packages you will be able to create subdomains with only a couple of clicks in your hosting Control Panel. All of them are going to be listed in a single place together with the domain addresses hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain in order to make their management easier. Whatever the plan that you select, you are going to be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or create custom error pages along the way. You will also have access to a lot of functions for any of them with only a mouse click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. As opposed to other companies, we haven't limited the amount of subdomains that you can have even if you host just one domain name within the account.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
You can create as many subdomains as you want with any one of our semi-dedicated servers as we haven't set an upper limit for this feature. The Hepsia website hosting CP will enable you to add a new subdomain with just a few clicks and you can access a variety of advanced features during the process - modify the default access folder, pick the IP address the subdomain will use from the shared and dedicated ones that are offered in your account, activate FrontPage Extensions, add an SSL certificate, and much more. Even if you set up a huge amount of subdomains, you're going to be able to keep track of them with ease because they will be listed in alphabetical order below their main domain. For every single one of them, you are able to access the site files or check out logs and usage statistics through instant access buttons.