A subdomain is part of a web address which is under the main domain, for example name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own web site and records and can also be hosted through a different provider if you need to use a specific feature that is not provided by your current provider. An illustration for using a subdomain is if you have a company website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can purchase your products. You can also have a forum where they can discuss the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the sites separated is also more secure in case there is a script security breach.
Subdomains in Website Hosting
Each website hosting plan that we provide will enable you to create many subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks inside your website hosting Control Panel. They'll all be listed in the section in which you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to very easily keep tabs on every one of them. Additionally, you can access lots of functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the website files, and more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have a number of options that you can choose 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'll have is totally up to you as we haven't restricted this feature for any of our packages.