A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain, such as name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every single subdomain could have its own website and records and can also be hosted through a different provider if you need to use a certain feature which isn't provided by your current provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a company site as well as 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 using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is also more secure in case there is a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Hosting

Every single cloud hosting package that we supply will permit you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a few clicks within your hosting CP. They are going to be listed in the area in which you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep track of them all. Furthermore, you can access many functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the website files, plus much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you're also going to have lots of options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The amount of subdomains you'll have is totally up to you since we have not restricted this feature for any of our packages.

Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Using our semi-dedicated server plans, you'll be able to create an unrestricted number of subdomains for any of the domains you add as hosted in the account. It will take a couple of mouse clicks to set up a new subdomain and throughout the process you're going to be able to to add unique error pages for it, choose if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it'll access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains you have in the account will be arranged under their root domain in alphabetical order and you'll be able to see and control all of them without difficulty. Using fast access buttons and right-click menus you'll also be able to jump to the website files in the File Manager section or check logs, visitor statistics and other information about any of your subdomains.