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    What is a sub domain?

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    Subdomains are the third level domains that are used to organize your web site content.


    They are just like folders under your root directory. But they will have a special URL to access.


    http://www.yoursite.com


    is the regular URL with out a subdomain.


    http://products.yoursite.com


    is an URL with subdomain “products”. Here the:


    .com is the first level domain
    yoursite is the second level domain
    products is the third level domain


    Hosts that allow UNLIMITED Sub-domans:


    Host with UNLIMTED Subdomains.


    What is the purpose of subdomains?


    1. You can organise your web site like support, help and FAQ at ‘http://support.yoursite.com’.And your products and order links under ‘http://store.yoursite.com’ etc.


    2. If you have members or you want to share your disk space with your friends and family, you can create a subdomain for each of them and give access with their own user name and password.


    3. You can also organise the email addresses that comes to seperate departments on your web site like support@support.yoursite.com, orders@store.yoursite.com etc.


    4. Long URLs are cut short to a subdomain, so it is easy to remember the short URL instead of long URLs. Especially this is true with your affiliate links which are long and with many special characters like ‘?’,'&’ etc. This is difficult to remember. So in these cases creating a subdomain for that long URL helps to remember it well.


    Where to create subdomains?


    Your host should enable subdomain creating feature for you. Number of subdomains that are alloted for you depends on the type of hosting plan you are using. You can use ‘subdomains’ icon or text link in your control panel to create, delete and edit your subdomains.


    Now a days almost all hosts allot unlimited subdomains with all hosting packages.


    1. Login into yur host panel. You will see a link ‘Subdomains’.
    2. Creating a subdomain is easy with your graphical user interface.


    http://www.webmasters-central.com/article-blog/webdesign/what-is-a-subdomain-how-to-create-a-subdomain/



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