A subdomain is a part of a web address which is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain because the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own website and records and can also be hosted through a different company if you want to use a specific feature which isn't provided by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site along with an online store under a subdomain where clients can purchase your products. Additionally, you can have a forum where they can talk about the products and by employing subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any chance of all websites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the websites separated is also less risky in case of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Each cloud hosting plan which we supply will allow you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks within your hosting Control Panel. They will all be listed in the section in which you create them and arranged under the main domain for more convenience, so that you can easily keep track of all of them. Furthermore, you can access lots of functions for any one of the subdomains through right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, and much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you're also going to have many options that you can choose from - define the default access folder, create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. The amount of subdomains you will have is totally up to you because we haven't restricted this feature for any one of our plans.