A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every single subdomain could have its own site and records and can even be hosted using a different company if you wish to use some feature that's not provided by your current service provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a business site along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. In addition, you can have a forum where they can talk about the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any risk of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the sites separated is also less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting packages will permit you to create hundreds of subdomains for every domain address hosted inside your account without any problem. Assuming that the main domain is added, it will take 2 mouse clicks to create a subdomain and select what folder it'll open (if different from the default one), create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, plus much more. All subdomains are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for effortless access and administration. By right-clicking on any of them and by using fast access buttons you can see the error logs, visitor statistics or website files for that particular subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total number of subdomains which you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.