View Single Post
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 02-09-10, 01:10
NCHosting NCHosting is offline
BOD Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 86
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Philly View Post
I'm not sure what it is called but I often see this on forums. This is not really a problem but I just want to know the difference, if there is one.

I see some websites have a domain like www. forum.website.com and then there is another one where it has www. website.com/forum. Is there a technical difference between these kind of domains?
I prefer the first url - forum. website.com (drop the www) as you can still redirect the sub-domain to any directory you like.

Some prefer the second option. All in personal taste. I think a sub-domain is cleaner.

Last edited by jason s : 02-12-10 at 14:47.
Reply With Quote