A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own site and records and can also be hosted using a different company if you wish to use some feature which is not offered by your current provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you'll avoid any probability of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the websites separated is more secure in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Every cloud hosting plan we offer will permit you to create many subdomains with no more than a few clicks in your web hosting Control Panel. They're going to be listed in the section where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep track of them all. Additionally, you can access many functions for any one of the subdomains through right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, and much more. While creating a new subdomain, you're also going to have lots of options that you can select from - specify the default access folder, create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. How many subdomains you will have is entirely up to you because we haven't limited this feature for any of our packages.