Hi all.
I'm going to develop a website, oriented to products and services for local users. For different reasons I want to create subdomains for each state of USA.

So my question is the following: how is it better to configure DNS and web-server to make the same way (I will use linux hosting). Truly speaking I know how to make it working for 3-4 subdomains but if we make 50 different independent subdomains - the maintenance and support will by very difucult.
Thank you in advance.

Hi there,

If you get a control panel like Plesk or cPanel, you can just configure about 3 IP addresses for your server (2 for DNS servers 1 for the sites).

Using the control panel interface, you should be able to easily create the main domain name (chosenname.com) and then add as many sub domains as you wish using the sub domain features of the control panel interface.

Plesk has a cool skeleton directory tool that allows you to configure the default setup for each new account/host. You can also create templates for users, sub-hosts, etc, making the maintenance easier.

Have fun.

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