A subdomain is the section of the web address which is before a domain and you've most likely seen a lot of subdomains while browsing the Web. As an illustration, many sites such as Wikipedia have versions a number of languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org etc. The main advantage of employing 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 one could have a supplementary site, like an e-learning portal for college students aside from the main school site. If you use subdomains instead of subfolders, it will be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a particular website, not mentioning that it will be more secure to have the websites separate from one another.

Subdomains in Shared Hosting

When you use shared hosting packages you are going to be able to create subdomains with a couple of clicks in your website hosting Control Panel. All of them will be listed in one location together with the domain addresses hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain to help make their administration easier. Whatever the plan that you select, you're going to be able to create many subdomains and set their access folder or create custom error pages in the process. Additionally, you'll have access to a lot of functions for any of them with just a mouse click, so from the exact same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. Unlike other companies, we have not limited the amount of subdomains which you can have even if you host one domain address in the account.