A subdomain is a part of a web address which is under the main domain, such as name.example.com. Technically, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own website and records and can also be hosted through a different company if you need to use a feature that is not offered by your current service provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a business site as well as an online store under a subdomain where clients can acquire your products. You can also have a forum where they can comment on the products and by using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all websites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is less risky in case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Shared Hosting

When you use shared hosting packages you'll be able to create subdomains with a couple of mouse clicks in your website hosting CP. All of them are going to be listed in one spot together with the domain addresses hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain to help make their administration a lot easier. Regardless of the plan that you select, you are going to be able to create many subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages along the way. Additionally, you will have access to numerous functions for any of them with just a click, so from the very same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. As opposed to other companies, we haven't limited the amount of subdomains you can have even if you host just one domain name inside the account.