A subdomain is part of a web address that is under the main domain, such as name.example.com. Actually, even in www.example.com the "www" part is a subdomain given that the fully qualified domain name is only "example.com". Each subdomain could have its own website and records and can even be hosted with a different provider if you need to use a specific feature that is not provided by your current provider. A good example for using a subdomain is if you have a company website and an online store under a subdomain where customers can acquire your products. You can also have a forum where they can talk about the products and by using subdomains as opposed to subfolders you will avoid any risk of all sites going down when you perform maintenance, or update one of the website scripts. Keeping your websites separated is more secure in the event of a script security breach.
Subdomains in Shared Web Hosting
If you buy a shared web hosting plan from us, you're going to be able to create subdomains with ease through your Hepsia website hosting CP. We have decided not to restrict their number, so even if you host just one domain name in the account, you are going to be able to create as many subdomains as you want and have a different site for each and every one. During the creation of a subdomain, you'll be able to choose the folder in the account that it'll open, set up custom error pages, activate FrontPage Extensions and error logs, select a server shared IP address or a dedicated one if you have such, plus much more. All hosted domain names and the subdomains that you create for them are going to be conveniently listed in alphabetical order in one place and you will be able to access a lot of functions for every one of them with right-click context menus - records, files, etc.