A subdomain is a website address, that's under a main, or a root domain name. One example is something.domain.com, where domain.com is the main domain address, while "something" is the subdomain below it. Each and every subdomain can have its own site and records i.e. apart from employing the domain name as a part of the whole web address, a subdomain can be completely independent and also hosted by a different provider. Employing a subdomain can be quite beneficial if you wish to have different sites that are associated in some way. For instance, you can have a web-based store under the main domain and a forum under a subdomain so as to provide means for your clients to ask questions and / or share thoughts about your products. The advantage of employing a subdomain as opposed to a subfolder is that the sites are going to be separated, so you're able to update one of them or perform maintenance without affecting the other.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Every cloud hosting plan that we supply will allow you to create hundreds of subdomains with no more than a couple of clicks within 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 can easily keep tabs on all of them. Additionally, you can access many functions for any of the subdomains through right-click context menus - as an example, you can view or edit their DNS records, access the website files, plus much more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have a number of options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, set unique 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 will have is entirely up to you as we have not restricted this feature for any of our packages.