Subdomaining on hostgator

On lower quality hosting sites, your pages will be in separate html formats, example http://www.test.com/a.html, http://www.test.com/b.html ). But let’s say that a.html is about food and b.html is about music, you would want it to have a different domain name, eg, food.com or music.com. This would be next to impossible cos most probably would have bought it and it will take a fortune to buy the domain. A better and free way of going around this is to subdomain so you will have a URL like, food.test.com and music.test.com. Then, you can have all your html and images files in different directories which makes housekeeping so much easier.

With hostgator.com, all you need to do is to login to the control panel, and click on the subdomain icon,    , add the subdomain which will append to your domain name and setup your redirection, this will point to the webpage or folder that will be your homepage for this subdomain and your good to go. A working example is http://hostgator.shazli.com.  Till next time, cya.