If you are hosting your websites with GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans, or Godaddy Resellers, and want to setup subdomains, you might get errors and 404 not found responses. DO NOT WORRY. It takes time for the DNS settings to propagate through the internet. Godaddy sets the subdomains via DNS’s A Records and not via .htaccess files, which makes your website more reliable and standard appliant. Based on our experience it might takes from 1-2 hours upto 24 hours for the DNS settings and subdomain settings to propagate.
Our advice is that you think about the architecture of your site(s) and data carefully, to be able to choose the right subdomain settings once for all.
It’s preferrable if you send your visitors a 503 (Service Unavailable) response while you are working on your site(s). Later on Ze Best Webhosting, we will see how a 503 Maintenance page helps your SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
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