A subdomain is a part of a web address which is under the main domain, for instance name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own site and records and can also be hosted through a different provider if you want to use a feature that's not provided by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site as well as an online store under a subdomain where customers can purchase your products. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can comment on the products and by using subdomains rather than subfolders you will avoid any probability of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is also less risky in case there is a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting packages will enable you to set up numerous subdomains for every domain hosted in your account without any hassle. Provided that the main domain is added, it requires two mouse clicks to create a subdomain and choose what folder it's going to open (if different from the default one), create customized 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 convenient access and management. By right-clicking on any of them and by using quick access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that particular subdomain. We have not set a restriction for the amount of subdomains which you can create with any of our plans, so you can have as many as you need.