Adding Subdomains

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If your hosting package includes subdomains, which are additional third-level domain names, then you can use them to:

• Organize logically the structure of your site.
• Host additional websites or parts of a website on the same server without the need to pay for registration of additional domain names.

An example of using subdomains:

You have a website your-product.com dedicated to promoting and selling your product. For publishing information related to customer service and online order tracking, you can organize the subdomain “orders” so that your users will be able to access this information directly by visiting the Internet address “orders.your-product.com”.

As subdomains have the same status with the additional domains, you can use the same set of tools and services for working with subdomains. For example, SSL Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet.[1] TLS and SSL encrypt the segments of network connections at the Application Layer for the Transport Layer, using asymmetric cryptography for key exchange, symmetric encryption for confidentiality, and message authentication codes for message integrity./TLS The Transport Layer Security protocol aims primarily to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating computer applications.[1]:3 When secured by TLS, connections between a client (e.g., a web browser or email program) and a server (website or email server) are private (or secure), authenticated, and unaltered. protection, Presence Builder, web statistics, and so on.

To set up a subdomain for a site division or a separate site:

1. Go to Websites & Domains.

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3. Click Add Subdomain The Domain Name System (DNS) has a tree structure or hierarchy, with each node on the tree being a domain name. A subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain, the only domain that is not also a subdomain is the root domain. For example, mail.example.com and calendar.example.com are subdomains of the example.com domain, which in turn is a subdomain of the com top-level domain (TLD)..
4. Specify the following:
   1. In the Subdomain name box, type the portion of address that will be added to the domain name of your main site.
   2. In the Document root box, type the desired location of the directory where all files and subdirectories of this site will be kept. You can use the default directory of the main site, called httpdocs, or specify another directory.
5. Click OK.The new subdomain name is now shown in the list at the bottom of the screen.

You can now upload your web content to the subdomain (directory on the server), as described in the Website Content section, the Uploading Content Using FTP subsection.

Master and Slave DNS

When adding subdomains, always ensure that each subdomain's DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for these names into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide, distributed keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet. zone management is always turned off. Only the primary domain should ever be in master mode.