A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own web site and records and can even be hosted through a different provider if you need to use some feature that is not provided by your current provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site and an online store under a subdomain where clients can purchase your products. You can also have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains rather than subfolders you'll avoid any chance of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your sites separated is less risky in the case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting plans will enable you to set up countless subdomains for any domain address hosted within your account without any difficulty. As long as the main domain address is added, it will take two clicks to create a subdomain and select what folder it will open (if different from the default one), set unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and 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 instant access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that specific subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total number of subdomains that you can create with any of our plans, so you can have as many as you need.