A subdomain is the part of the web address that is before a domain and you have quite possibly seen a lot of subdomains while surfing around world wide web. For instance, many sites like Wikipedia have versions in various languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org and so forth. The best thing about using a subdomain is that it can have a separate website and its own records, so you're able to even host it on a separate server. The practical use is that one could have a supplementary site, like an e-learning portal for students aside from the main school site. If you are using subdomains as opposed to subfolders, it will be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a certain site, not mentioning that it'll be more secure to have the websites separate from each other.
Subdomains in Cloud Hosting
Every cloud hosting package we supply will allow you to create many subdomains with no more than a few clicks in your web hosting CP. 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're able to effortlessly monitor every one of them. Additionally, you can access many functions for any one of the subdomains via right-click context menus - for instance, you can view or modify their DNS records, access the site files, and more. While setting up a new subdomain, you will also have numerous options that you can choose from - specify the default access folder, set custom 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'll have is completely up to you because we haven't restricted this feature for any of our plans.