A subdomain is the part of the web address that is before a domain name and you've most likely seen a lot of subdomains while surfing around the Internet. As an example, many websites like Wikipedia have versions in different languages using subdomains - en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org and so on. The main advantage of using a subdomain is that it can have an independent site and its own records, so you are able to even host it on another server. The practical use is that you could have a supplementary site, like an e-learning portal for college students as well as the main school site. If you are using subdomains as an alternative to subfolders, it will be much easier to perform maintenance or to upgrade a particular website, not mentioning that it'll be more safe to have the sites separate from each other.
Subdomains in Cloud Website Hosting
When you use cloud website hosting packages you are going to be able to create subdomains with just a few clicks in your web hosting CP. All of them are going to be listed in one location along with the domain names hosted in the account and grouped under their own domain so as to make their administration a lot easier. Whatever the plan that you choose, you will be able to create hundreds of subdomains and set their access folder or set up custom error pages during the process. You'll have access to a lot of functions for any of them with just a click, so from the same section in which you create them you can access their DNS records, files, visitor statistics, etc. In contrast to other providers, we have not limited the amount of subdomains that you can have even if you host only one domain within the account.