A subdomain is a part of a web address that's under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own web site and records and can even be hosted using a different company if you need to use some feature which isn't provided by your current provider. One example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website as well as an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can even have a forum in which they can comment on the products and by employing subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you'll avoid any risk of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the websites separated is more secure in case there is a script security breach.

Subdomains in Shared Website Hosting

Each shared website hosting plan that we provide will enable you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a few clicks within 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, so you can very easily keep tabs on them all. In addition, you can access many functions for any of the subdomains through right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, plus much more. While creating a new subdomain, you will also have a number of options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or choose if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. How many subdomains you'll have is completely up to you as we have not restricted this feature for any one of our plans.