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more aimed towards building web apps than deciding where to put your blog, but someone from wuffoo strongly recommended against subdomains http://particletree.

• devicenull 16y ago
  Reason #2 really isn't a good one. It's pretty simple to setup subdomains locally (just use your hosts file to configure something like dev.whatever.yourdomain.com to point to localhost). Every webserver I know of supports name based virtualhosts, so it's not even like you need multiple IP's
  • daleharvey 16y ago
    you cant use wildcards within your hosts file, so you have to manually edit your hosts file for every new subdomain you want to use, I have had a huge hassle doing the same. particularly when you want 1. dynamically generated sub domains, 2. to test a lot of subdomains. Unless you want to run bind of course
    • andrewvc 16y ago
      just have your regular DNS use localhost as a wildcard subdomain, say *.development.mysite.com
      • retro212 16y ago
        lvh.me domain is pointed to 127.0.0.1 so you can use subdomains if you're connected to the internet.
      • daleharvey 16y ago
        I think its pretty important for most people development setups to work offline
        • andrewvc 16y ago
          Well, then setup bind. It's not the end of the world :). That, or just use /etc/hosts, it's more of a pain, but for testing you just need a handful of URLs.