All of our hosting accounts, except for the Basic Plan, allow you to easily set up sub domains of your main domain, of the form subdomain.maindomain.co.uk, from within your Control Panel. You may create from 4 to 24 sub domains depending on your plan type.
When you create a sub domain you will find a new folder in your account with the same name as the prefix (or "third level") of the sub domain you have just created. Any pages you upload to this folder will then be viewable using this particular sub domain.
For example, if your master domain name is yourdomain.co.uk and you were to add a support sub domain then your visitors would be able to conveniently access the support section of your site by keying the sub domain support.yourdomain.co.uk into their web browsers. This should also be easier for them to remember as they don't have to remember exactly where on your site the support pages are actually located.
In this example, if you upload the page index.html to the folder named support then it will be viewable on the Web at the URL:
http://support.yourdomain.co.uk
Of course, the same page can equally well (but less conveniently) be accessed at the URL:
http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/support/
In addition to the normal restrictions on account usage as covered in our Terms Of Service, we only normally allow sub domains to be used for different sections of a single web site and not for the hosting of multiple web sites under a single account. If you wish to share your account resources between more than one web site, we apply a charge of 5 pounds per month for each additional site. Pointed Domains can also be used for hosting multiple sites in a single account.
Sub domains may only be created under your main domain and won't work for parked or pointed domains.
They share the resources of your main account, including the disk space and data transfer allowances. |
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