A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain name, such as name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every subdomain could have its own website and records and can also be hosted using a different company if you need to use a certain feature that's not offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can also have a forum where they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping your sites separated is also less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Website Hosting

Our website hosting packages will allow you to set up numerous subdomains for any domain name hosted within your account without any problem. Assuming that the main domain is added, it will take two clicks to create a subdomain and pick what folder it's going to open (if different from the default one), set customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, and much more. All subdomains will be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for easy access and management. By right-clicking on any of them and by using quick access buttons you can view the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that specific subdomain. We haven't set a limit for the total number of subdomains you can create with any one of our plans, so you can have as many as you want.