A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain, such as name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own web site and records and can also be hosted through a different company if you wish to use a specific feature that isn't offered by your current service provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site as well as an online store under a subdomain where clients can buy your products. Additionally, you can have a forum where they can comment on the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any chance of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting packages will permit you to create many subdomains for any domain address hosted in your account without any problem. If the main domain name is added, it will take 2 mouse clicks to set up a subdomain and pick what folder it will open (if different from the default one), create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and much more. All subdomains are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for quick access and control. By right-clicking on any one of them and by using fast access buttons you can see the error logs, visitor statistics or website files for that particular subdomain. We have not set a restriction for the total amount of subdomains you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.