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 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 using a different company if you want to use a feature that isn't provided by your current provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website 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 rather than 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 the websites separated is also less risky in the event of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Web Hosting

Each and every web hosting plan which we supply will permit you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks inside your website hosting CP. They will all be listed in the section in which you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so that you can easily keep tabs on all of them. Furthermore, you can access many functions for any of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the site files, and much more. While creating a new subdomain, you will also have a number of options that you can pick from - define the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or decide if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you will have is 100 % up to you as we have not limited this feature for any one of our packages.