A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain, such as name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own web site and records and can even be hosted through a different company if you need to use some feature that's not provided by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website and an online store under a subdomain where clients can acquire your products. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you will avoid any chance of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping your sites separated is less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Web Hosting

Every single cloud web hosting plan we provide will enable you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a few mouse clicks within your website hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the area in which you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so you can easily keep tabs on them all. Additionally, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the site files, and a lot more. While setting up a new subdomain, you will also have numerous options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or choose if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you'll have is entirely up to you as we have not restricted this feature for any one of our plans.