A subdomain is a website address, which is under a main, or a root domain. One example is something.domain.com, in which domain.com is the main domain address, while "something" is the subdomain below it. Every subdomain can have its own website and records i.e. apart from using the domain name as part of the whole web address, a subdomain can be totally independent and even hosted by a separate provider. Employing a subdomain can be extremely useful if you wish to have different web sites which are associated in some way. For instance, you can have an on-line store under the main domain plus a forum under a subdomain in order to offer means for your customers to ask questions or share views about your products. The main advantage of using a subdomain rather than a subfolder is that the web sites will be separated, so you're able to update one of them or perform maintenance without affecting the other.

Subdomains in Shared Hosting

Each shared hosting package we provide will permit you to create many subdomains with no more than a couple of mouse clicks in your web hosting CP. They're going to be listed in the area where you create them and grouped under the main domain for more convenience, so that you're able to easily monitor all of them. Additionally, you can access a lot of functions for any of the subdomains via right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or change their DNS records, access the site files, and more. While setting up a new subdomain, you are also going to have many options that you can pick from - specify the default access folder, set custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions or pick if the subdomain will use a shared or a dedicated IP address. How many subdomains you are going to have is 100 % up to you since we have not limited this feature for any of our plans.