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Ask HN: What domain do you use for your docs site?
- scapecast 9y agomost companies just use https://docs.companyname.com https://docs.companyname.com But then you have companies like Slack, which picked a whole new top level domain. https://get.slack.help/ https://get.slack.help/ What's the benefit of going with the .help domain?
- arkitaip 9y agoSlack is using a domain hack to spell out Get Slack Help. It's cute but there aren't really any usability, security or performance benefits. Go with a docs. sub domain: users will recognize the domain it belongs to and you will have one less certificate to worry about.
- kleampa 9y agodocs. for easy maintenance and scaling
- Bino 9y agoI second that, it also allows moving and separation from different sites/publication systems (by DNS pointing). Also a valid concern: I seen main sites been redone/moved so many times while the docs stayed the same on its own subdomain...
- CM30 9y agohttps://companyname.com/docs https://companyname.com/docs Don't see why you need a subdomain for this, and it seems like something that may be worse on a SEO/marketing level (there's mixed evidence here, but some sources like Moz say that subdomains are treated like separate websites rather than part of the same one). So you may not even need a subdomain for the docs site. You certainly don't need a whole separate domain for it, especially if the only reason for it it a 'cute' domain hack without much in the way of practical value.