Buying a new domain is unnecessary when you just want to experiment on something or make a website without harming the live website.

You can just create a subdomain and play around with it. It’s really simple as 1 2 3.

Before starting let’s understand what is a subdomain.

A subdomain is one kind of a second website, with its separate design and contents. The name of the subdomain will be just adding another name before the main domain name. something like your domain name is https://skmoni.com and I created a subdomain called https://subdomain.skmoni.com. So here is the subdomain is the extensions or extra name that is pointed to a whole new site.

Let’s jump into it. How to Create a subdomain from Cpanel/hosting, you can follow these steps:

1. Login to your hosting account. Whether it is GoDaddy, Hostgator, Namecheap, a2shosting, or anything.
2. Then log in to Cpanel.
3. In Cpanel search of an option called Subdomains. Click on it
4. Here you’ll see “Create a Subdomain”. Just below that on the subdomain, you can input your subdomain name.
5. Leave the Domain as it is. Because it’s the domain under the subdomain that Is created.
6. Document Root. When you write the subdomain name you’ll see it will appear automatically as a URL. This is the URL of your subdomain.
7. Click on Create and you’re done.
8. You can check your subdomain below that section called subdomains
9. Why creating a subdomain is important?

Sometimes big companies located their brand names with subdomains. Some website adds a whole new design for their blog page, forums, events, and so on. Other needs are you can create a whole new website before publishing it to the main domain. Really Cool huh! 😉

Are you able to create a subdomain after reading this article? Please reply with the comment. I’ll be really happy to answer you.

The next article will be about How to Install WordPress on Cpanel automatically and manually.