A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain, for example name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every single subdomain could have its own web site and records and can even be hosted using a different company if you need to use a specific feature that is not provided by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website as well as an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. Additionally, you can have a forum where they can comment on the products and by using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you will avoid any risk of all websites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is more secure in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use cloud website hosting packages you're going to be able to create subdomains with a few mouse clicks in your website hosting Control Panel. All of them will be listed in one location together with the domains hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain in order to make their administration a lot easier. No matter the plan that you select, you are going to be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages along the way. You will also have access to numerous functions for any of them with only a mouse click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. As opposed to other providers, we have not limited the number of subdomains you can have even if you host just one domain within the account.