A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for instance 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 through a different provider if you wish to use a specific feature that's not offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site as well as an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. Additionally, you can have a forum where they can comment on the products and by using subdomains instead of subfolders you will avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is also less risky in case there is a script security breach.
Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting
Every cloud website hosting package which we provide will permit you to create many subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks within your website hosting Control Panel. They're going to be listed in the area in which you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, to help you very easily keep an eye on all of them. In addition, you can access a lot of functions for any of the subdomains through right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, plus much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have lots of options that you can select from - define the default access folder, create custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or choose if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The amount of subdomains you'll have is completely up to you since we have not limited this feature for any of our plans.
Subdomains in Semi-dedicated Servers
With our semi-dedicated server plans, you are going to be able to create an unrestricted number of subdomains for any of the domains which you add as hosted in the account. It will take a couple of clicks to create a new subdomain and throughout the process you'll be able to add custom error pages for it, select if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP address, change the default folder that it will access or activate FrontPage Extensions. All subdomains that you have in the account are going to be arranged under their root domain from a to z and you are going to be able to see and control all of them without difficulty. By using instant access buttons and right-click menus you will also be able to jump to the website files inside the File Manager section or see logs, visitor statistics and other information about any one of your subdomains.