A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain, for instance name.example.com. Technically, 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 website and records and can even be hosted using a different company if you wish to use a certain feature which is not provided by your current service provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site as well as an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. In addition, you can have a forum where they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you'll avoid any risk of all websites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping your websites separated is also more secure in case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting
Every single cloud website hosting plan that we provide will enable you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks within your web hosting CP. They will all be listed in the section in which you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, to help you very easily keep an eye on all of them. Furthermore, you can access many functions for any of the subdomains via right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, plus much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you'll also have a number of options that you can select from - specify the default access folder, create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you are going to have is 100 % up to you as we have not restricted this feature for any one of our plans.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Through our semi-dedicated server plans, you'll be able to create an unlimited number of subdomains for any one of the domains that you add as hosted in the account. It requires a few mouse clicks to create a new subdomain and throughout the process you are going to be able to add tailor-made error pages for it, select if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP, change the default folder that it will access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains that you have in the account are going to be arranged under their root domain in alphabetical order and you're going to be able to see and manage all of them without difficulty. Using instant access buttons and right-click menus you'll also be able to jump to the site files within the File Manager area or check logs, visitor stats and other info about any one of your subdomains.