A subdomain is part of a web address that's under the main domain name, such as 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". Each subdomain can have its own website and records and can even be hosted through a different provider if you wish to use some feature that's not provided by your current service provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a company site and an online store under a subdomain where clients can purchase your products. You can also have a forum in which they can discuss the products and by employing subdomains rather than subfolders you will avoid any probability of all sites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping your sites separated is more secure in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Shared Web Hosting

Each and every shared web hosting package we offer will allow you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a few mouse clicks inside your website hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the section where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you can easily keep an eye on every one of them. Furthermore, you can access lots of functions for any one of the subdomains via right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the website files, plus much more. While creating a new subdomain, you will also have many options that you can select from - determine the default access folder, create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or select if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The amount of subdomains you are going to have is totally up to you as we haven't restricted this feature for any one of our packages.