A subdomain is part of a web address that's under the main domain, for instance name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own website and records and can even be hosted using a different provider if you wish to use a certain feature which is not offered by your current provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. In addition, you can have a forum where they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains rather than subfolders you are going to avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the sites separated is also more secure in the event of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Web Hosting

Our cloud web hosting plans will permit you to set up many subdomains for every domain name hosted within your account without any problem. Provided that the main domain address is added, it will take 2 mouse clicks to set up a subdomain and select 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 are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for easy access and administration. By right-clicking on any of them and by using quick access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or website files for that specific subdomain. We have not set a restriction for the total amount of subdomains that you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.