A subdomain is a website url, that's under a main, or a root domain name. One example is something.domain.com, in which domain.com is the main domain, while "something" is the subdomain below it. Each subdomain can have its own site and records i.e. apart from employing the domain name as part of the whole web address, a subdomain can be fully independent and even hosted by a different company. Employing a subdomain can be quite handy if you wish to have different web sites that are associated in some way. For instance, you can have an online store under the main domain along with a forum under a subdomain so as to supply means for your customers to ask questions and / or share experiences regarding your products. The best thing about employing a subdomain instead of a subfolder is that the web sites are going to be separated, so you are able to update one of them or perform maintenance not affecting the other.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Each cloud hosting package that we provide will allow you to create numerous subdomains with no more than a few clicks within your hosting CP. They will all be listed in the area in which you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to easily monitor them all. Furthermore, you can access a lot of functions for any one of the subdomains using right-click context menus - for example, you can view or change their DNS records, access the website files, and much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you will also have lots of options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, create unique error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain is going to use a shared or a dedicated IP address. What number of subdomains you will have is completely up to you since we haven't limited this feature for any one of our packages.