What Are Subdomains? I am a bit shame to ask it but anyway wh

[sader 0]

Yee a am tallking about host term here And I realy don't 100% understand what is it(but I want to know it)

Lets say free hosting service gives me unlimited subdomains so what are they giveing for me unlimited?

is subdomain like folder or path in my site for exemple

/images

/downloads/games

/downloads/sofware

/scripts

 

or are they saying that I can create unlimited account in theyrs service

for example

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

Sorry for stupid question

 

Thanx in anticipation

 

Notice from cmatcmextra:

Wrong forum. Moving from What Is? to Hosted Members Area. Fixed grammar on topic title.

Edited August 21, 2005 by cmatcmextra (see edit history)

[Tyssen 0]

Domain = http://ww38.yoursite.com/
Subdomain = http://ww38.subdomain.yoursite.com/ or just http://ww38.subdomain.yoursite.com/

[mayank 2]

well the sites which say sub-domain for you means that you can have subdomain of you domian...like Tyssen explained. you are correct that you will have to use folders and those folders will have their INDEX file as well and then you can make them as your subdomain. for e.g. if you having a domain like

/yourdomain.yourhost.com/ then your subdomain will be somthing like

/subdomain.yourdomain.yourhost.com/ or it can be somthing like

/yourdomain.yourhost.com/subdomain/ i hope this answers your question.

[BuffaloHelp 24]

Good question. For the question and due to responses I dug deeper to find out the following (which I never would have taken a second glance if it wasn't for this topic):

 

URL is separated and categorized as

 

{protocol} :// {place type} {separator} {server address}

 

Protocol: can be HTTP, FTP, FILE and more. It is the first instruction for your browser HOW to search for your entered address.

Place type: always expressed as WWW which is usually omitted these days thanks to the wildcard

Separator: dot

Server address: COM, GOV, NET, ORG are few examples.

 

So we get, http://forums.xisto.com/or http://forums.xisto.com/ This is also known as the TOP DOMAIN NAME.

 

When you see SLASH after the server address, it means to look for it in the server address' folder.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/-folder named "banners" in Xisto's address

 

Subdomain is an actual physical address that WWW can locate. It can be expressed as

{server name} {separator} {top domain name}

forum.trap17.com

 

If a location of a house represents the top domain name, subdomain can be viewed as each floor of that house. And within each floor you have X number of rooms or FOLDERS to store your belongings. At this point of WWW stage, it does not matter if you have subdomain or top domain with folders. But when you set up a subdomain it is easier to manage without disturbing other files. This is how Xisto or other subdomain lenders work. Xisto could have (but never will) given out SITENAME/yourCpanel/ as your subdomain address. But then everyone would have an access to the main folder where others could view/edit/delete your file. To divide and separate (mainly for security reason) everyone's files, subdomain is the best way. By doing so, you can access Xisto's main server but view/edit/delete only your portion in the collective. What this is saying, you can setup subdomain of your own WITHIN your subdomain hosted by Xisto, and you can use it for other programs, developments or hosting for others.

 

Xisto provides every hosting member with a free SUBDOMAIN name, i.e. yourDesiredName.trap17.com

[mayank 2]

i must say BuffaloHELP that you gave a great answer to the query and also it can be treated as a tutorial what do you say?i think this reponse answer all the question which a newbie can ask!Great work

[BuffaloHelp 24]

Thank you mayank. I hope my post was straight to the point. I have tendency to digress.Getting back to the topic, sader, I forgot to mention that the unlimited subdomain is incorrect. You can only have total of 99 subdomains. This means that your subdomain address would be something like http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ or subdomain.sader.trap17.com

[FLaKes 0]

Hey, I have a couple of questions about subdomains too.Does it cost credits to add a subdomain to my Xisto hosting?And can each subdomain have its own phpmyadmin. Example: I want to add a subdomain to make a web page for my band. I would like it to have dynamic content like news and all the text that my bandmates can update, but I dont want them entering to my cpanel. Is it possible to do this? Thanx.

[BuffaloHelp 24]

No it does not cost you anything to set up your own subdomain under your subdomain with Xisto. And as far as I know, you can have multiple forums but it needs to be set up in your root directory. So, set up the forum/news and give an access to that forum/news only. That is possible. I have been experimenting with CuteNews and it seems to be the best choice for just updating information. CuteNews does not require any SQL database so it will not take so much out of your hosting space. And adding information is as easy as posting (does not require FTP or cPanel access). CuteNews is also a part of pre-installed scripts, courtesy of Xisto. Ain't it cool?

[hype 0]

You can add any number of subdomains to your site as long as it dont exceed the limit, which is usually 99 if I've not been mistaken, or you can just park another domain at Xisto and then use the domain...

[sunkist 0]

Hi:Thanks for the explanations! I too wondered this. Please don't be embarassed to ask questions. Remember, if you have a question, there are probably several others who have the same question, but just have not asked it. Using the forum to learng and improving your skills is putting the forum to good use.I was making each of my folders a subdomain. After reading these explanations, I don't believe that it is necessary to do that.Sunkist

[wassie 0]

hehe you forgot one,you somethimes also got "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ then also "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;