Article - Sub-domains at Grey Pebbles
What is a Domain?
AKA "website address" or "URL", the domain name of a website is the ENTIRE website address (for example www.greypebbles.com). A domain name must be unique and after being registered needs to be renewed on a yearly basis.
What is a Sub-domain?
Sub-domains are commonly used to divide portions of a website into categories. A sub-domain is the part of the website address before the domain name.
For example: http://support.greypebbles.com.
In this example “support” is a sub-domain of the domain “http://www.greypebbles.com”.
A subdomain, unlike a domain name, is not registered anywhere because it is associated with a domain name only. Sub-domains at Grey Pebbles are free to any client currently on our Platinum and Gold hosting packages.
| Why are Sub-domains used? |
| Sub-domain makes the URLs shorter and nicer. |
| It allows website owners to categorize the content of the website. |
| It also helps in improving the search engine rankings as most of the search engines treat the subdomain as a separate website address. (Your website stats will include the statistics of the sub-domains.) |
| One of the advantages of using subdomain is that the website can be broken down into smaller pieces without losing the brand image associated with the domain name. |
| Sub-domains can be easily moved to another server if the category gets very popular. |
| No extra charge for subdomain setup. |
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