A subdomain is a part of a web address which is under the main domain name, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every single subdomain could have its own site and records and can even be hosted through a different provider if you want to use a specific feature which isn't offered by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website as well as an online store under a subdomain where clients can buy your products. Additionally, you can have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by using subdomains rather than subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the sites separated is less risky in case there is a script security breach.

Subdomains in Website Hosting

Every website hosting plan we offer will allow you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a few mouse clicks inside your website hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the area where you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep tabs on all of them. Additionally, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains via right-click context menus - for example, you can view or modify their DNS records, access the site files, and much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have many options that you can pick from - define the default access folder, create custom 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'll have is completely up to you because we have not limited this feature for any one of our packages.