A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every subdomain can have its own website and records and can also be hosted through a different provider if you want to use a certain feature that is not provided by your current provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a business site along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. Additionally, you can have a forum where they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you'll avoid any probability 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 of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting

With our cloud website hosting plans you're going to be able to create subdomains with just a few clicks in your web hosting Control Panel. All of them will be listed in a single location along with the domain names hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain to help make their administration simpler. Regardless of the plan that you pick, you will be able to create numerous subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages in the process. Additionally, you will have access to lots of functions for any of them with only a mouse click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. As opposed to other companies, we haven't limited the amount of subdomains you can have even if you host one domain name inside the account.