A subdomain is a part of a web address that is under the main domain name, for instance name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" element is a subdomain since the fully qualified domain name is just "example.com". Each subdomain can have its own website and records and can even be hosted with a different provider if you wish to use a feature that isn't offered by your current provider. An example for using a subdomain is if you have a business website along with an online store under a subdomain where customers can buy your products. You can even have a forum where they can comment on the products and by employing subdomains rather than subfolders you are going to avoid any risk of all websites going down if you perform maintenance, or update one of the site scripts. Keeping the sites separated is more secure in the case of a script security breach.

Subdomains in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting packages will allow you to set up countless subdomains for every domain name hosted inside your account without any problem. As long as the main domain is added, it takes two clicks to create a subdomain and choose what folder it's going to open (if different from the default one), create customized error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions, set a shared IP address or a dedicated one, plus much more. All subdomains are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order under their main domain for convenient access and management. By right-clicking on any one of them and by using quick access buttons you can see the error logs, visitor statistics or site files for that specific subdomain. We haven't set a restriction for the amount of subdomains which you can create with any of our plans, so you can have as many as you wish.