Re: Web application architecture (subdomain vs. sub directory)
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:09:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Web application architecture (subdomain vs. sub directory) | ||
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Shreyas Agasthya wrote:
> I am not sure who the end-users are for your website but if you are
> concerned about scalability, I would definitely go for a sub-domain
> approach. Assuming you approach a CDN like Akamai and you want to
> offload the traffic to come from the cloud, it's lot easier for you to
> integrate with them and to maintain.
>
> The subdirectory approach, whereas, is very cumbersome and takes more
> work at your end to paraphrase the whole set-up should the needs
> change going forward.
The subdirectory approach is easily rewritten to an internal subdomain
structure.
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Per Jessen, Zürich (17.7°C)