A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own web site and records and can also be hosted through a different company if you need to use a certain feature which isn't provided by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site and an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can even have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you will avoid any probability of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the sites separated is also less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting plans will permit you to set up countless subdomains for every domain address hosted within your account without any hassle. Provided that the main domain name is added, it takes 2 mouse clicks to set up a subdomain and pick what folder it will open (if different from the default one), set customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and much more. All subdomains are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for effortless access and administration. By right-clicking on any one of them and by using fast access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that particular subdomain. We haven't set a restriction for the amount of subdomains that you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you wish.