To Subdomain or Not? As a publisher
Hey y'all! I am curious... How are you doing? As a publisher, I would love to have this on my top level but from the various videos I have seen folks with a subdomain? I am curious, is there a recommendation or does it not matter? Also, if you have done this on your top level of your already set up site, how did it work for you?
Any advice, thoughts, opinions?
I also have the exact same question. I want to create an all in one membership site running the membership content and the community as well as integrating Fluent CRM into the mix.
I am torn on what to do and whether or not there are advantages or disadvantages on the sub domain route or if I just put everything in my main website.
I can offload my sales pages into a sub domain to cope with spikes in traffic (different page builder) and this should help.
Chris Cole Thank you so much for the reply! Happy to see that I am not alone here! I would prefer to keep it on the main domain, so I can keep traffic, ads, and integrations if possible...
Marie Denee also my thinking. Especially making the integrations easier.
Chris Cole I am also intrigued with this too - as admin you want to log into your back end and just work at things within wordpress knowing community is there too.
Ramy And for some reason I thought that it is the opposite of several servers and a common user base on them, to understand how it really works.
Artur Abakarov yeah i am perplexed with this so watching this space
Chris Cole Especially as I would love to integrate content into the feed, gamification actions, etc... I did have a subdomain for my buddyboss community and it was a PITA... Bt as I am learning more about this platform, I def want to make sure I learn as much as I can before I relaunch things.
We're discussing this on another thread, too.
My top level domain is for publishing. I don't want user accounts there for the security risks that come with those accounts, but also because there is no purpose for user accounts to interact with anything there.
I use a subdomain for my community site, FluentCRM, FluentBoards, FluentSupport, etc. Those are all services for users and they can interact nicely together. However, I don't need them on my publishing site.
On another domain, I have a client subdomain for much the same reason.
Basically, the top level domain is sort of a marketing site and the subdomain is where I work and interact with users. This kind of segregation means that a breach or calamity on one site will not impact the others.
So I don't put all my eggs in one basket or all of my strain on one server. I could expand either server with more resources without affecting the other WordPress instances.
William Beem Ohhhh thank you for this, could you tag me in that other thread? I would love to read others thoughts, too! I missed that one!
Put it all in one basket... I hate the idea of subdomains. Everything should be on one domain for easy access and integration. This way, there's no need to log in and out from one subdomain to another. Keep things simple and life will be simple
Bryan William There's no rule you have to do it my way or I have to do it your way. I have reasons for using separate domains for separate purposes. There are no integration problems. Each installation serves a different purpose.
William Beem Sure there's no rule. 2 years ago, I used to scatter my business across several sub-domains. Each serves a different purpose. one for blogging, another for courses, another for the previous community I was using, another for landing pages, another for my affiliates, and the list goes on and on. It was so complicated to the point that when I received an update, I used to go into each to update.
Currently, I house everything in one place and probably pay for a good hosting that will power the systems. This makes life easier for me
I don't want client accounts on my main marketing/content site. So I use a subdomain for community or courses. Keep the load off the main site, for a fast-loading and secure main marketing site. Different purposes, different sites.