A subdomain is a website address, that's under a main, or a root domain. An illustration is something.domain.com, where domain.com is the main domain address, while "something" is the subdomain below it. Every single subdomain can have its own website and records i.e. aside from using the domain name as a part of the whole web address, a subdomain can be completely independent and also hosted by a different service provider. Using a subdomain can be quite handy if you wish to have different web sites that are associated in some way. For example, you may have a web-based store under the main domain plus a forum under a subdomain in order to provide means for your customers to ask questions and share opinions concerning your products. The main advantage of employing a subdomain instead of a subfolder is that the websites are going to be separated, so you can update one of them or perform maintenance not affecting the other.

Subdomains in Cloud Web Hosting

Each cloud web hosting package which we offer will allow you to create many subdomains with no more than a few clicks inside your website hosting CP. They're going to be listed in the section where you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so that you can easily keep track of them all. Furthermore, you can access a lot of functions for any of the subdomains through right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or modify their DNS records, access the website files, and more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have many options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The number of subdomains you'll have is completely up to you as we haven't restricted this feature for any of our packages.