A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. From a technical perspective, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Every single subdomain can have its own site and records and can also be hosted using a different provider if you wish to use a specific feature which isn't offered by your current provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a business website as well as an online store under a subdomain where clients can buy your products. In addition, you can have a forum in which they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you'll avoid any probability of all websites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping the websites separated is also less risky in the case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Hosting

When you use hosting plans you'll be able to create subdomains with just a couple of clicks in your website hosting CP. All of them will be listed in one spot along with the domains hosted in the account and arranged under their own domain in order to make their management simpler. Regardless of the plan that you select, you'll be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages during the process. Additionally, you will have access to a lot of functions for any of them with just a mouse click, so from the exact same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. Unlike other providers, we have not restricted the number of subdomains you can have even if you host one domain inside the account.