A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for example name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own site and records and can also be hosted with a different provider if you wish to use a feature that's not offered by your current provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site and an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can also have a forum in which they can comment on the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you'll avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is more secure in case there is a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting packages will allow you to create numerous subdomains for any domain hosted inside your account without any hassle. As long as the main domain name is added, it takes 2 clicks to set up a subdomain and choose what folder it's going to open (if different from the default one), create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and a lot more. All subdomains will be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for effortless access and administration. By right-clicking on any one of them and by using instant access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that particular subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total amount of subdomains which you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.