How to create a subdomain

A subdomain is an additional section of your main domain name. You can create subdomains to help organize and navigate to different sections of your main website if needed. Within your main domain, you can have as many subdomains as necessary to get to all of the different pages of your website. Also, the subdomain allows you to add an additional website to your hosting without purchasing the “Additional site” service.

There is no limit on subdomains on our hosting.

DirectAdmin

1. Go to your client area to the “Services – My Services” section and click the “Open Direct Admin” button;
2. The Direct Admin panel will be opened. Go to the “Account Manager” section and click the “Subdomain Management” button;
3. Choose a domain you want to add a subdomain for in the top menu bar;
4. To add a subdomain, click the “Add Subdomain” button;
5.  A new window where you can specify the name of your subdomain will be opened. The name must be specified in one word, like a forum. The other domain part will be added automatically and you will have a forum.domain.com subdomain as a result;
6. After the name is specified, click the “Add Subdomain” button. Done.

Please note that your subdomain root folder is created inside your main domain public_html folder. This means that your subdomain website can also be accessed at http://domain.com/forum. You can upload files to a subdomain folder in the same way you upload to any other folder.

If you want to delete a subdomain, hit the checkbox near the needed subdomain and click the “Delete” button.

cPanel

1. Go to your client area to the “Services – My Services” section and click the “Open cPanel” button;
2. The cPanel will be opened. Go to the “Domains” section and click the “Domains” button;
3. Enter the subdomain name, for example, forum. The rest of the domain will be added automatically and eventually, a subdomain forum.domain.com will be created;
4. The root directory will be generated automatically, you can also edit it manually;
5. Click the “Create” button.

If you want to delete a subdomain, just click the “Remove” button next to the required subdomain.

ISPmanager

1. Go to your client area to the “Services – My Services” section and click the “Open ISPmanager” button;
2. You can add an alias by going to the section “WWW – WWW-domains”;
3. Double click on the domain for which you want to create an alias;
4. Find the “Autosubdomains” field and switch its option from “off” to “in a separate directory” or “in the domain’s subdirectory”.:
   • in case you choose the “in a separate directory” option, you will have to create a new folder in your /www directory with a full name of your third-level domain like “subdomain.domain.com” and place files of your subdomain’s website in this directory;
   • in case you choose the “in the domain’s subdirectory” option, you will have to create a new folder in your /www/domain.com directory with a name of your subdomain like “subdomain” and place files of your subdomain’s site in this directory;
5. Click the “Ok” button.

You can add as many subdomains/directories as you want in the control panel ISPManager.

Plesk

1. Go to your client area to the “Services – My Services” section and click the “Open Plesk” button;
2. The Plesk panel will be opened. Go to the “Websites & Domains” section and click the button ”Add Subdomain”;
3. Enter your subdomain name and choose the domain you want to add a subdomain for from the drop-down list in the row.;
4. The root directory will be generated automatically, you can also edit it manually;
5. There is the option to install a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt;
6. After entering the data, you need to click the “OK” button.

There is a limit of 50 subdomains for services with the control panel Plesk. If you need more, contact our support.