A subdomain is a part of a web address which is under the main domain name, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own site and records and can even be hosted using a different company if you want to use a certain feature that's not provided by your current service provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. In addition, you can have a forum where they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains instead of subfolders you will avoid any chance of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your sites separated is also more secure in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Shared Web Hosting

Each and every shared web hosting plan we offer will permit you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a few mouse clicks inside your web hosting CP. They are going to be listed in the area in which you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, to help you easily monitor all of them. In addition, you can access lots of functions for any of the subdomains via right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the website files, and more. While creating a new subdomain, you'll also have numerous options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The amount of subdomains you are going to have is 100 % up to you as we have not limited this feature for any of our plans.