Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #1 –
I prefer domain.com/forum
May be because it is too easy to install in a folder.
Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #2 –
I've done it both ways so it somewhat depends on the circumstances. I've used forum.x.x mostly when the forum was on a different host from the main site.
I think users do not tend to enter forum.x x in to the address bar, What they are used to is entering the base site, www.x.x or just x.x and navigate to the forum.
Re: forum.example.com or example.com/forum ? What do you prefer?
Reply #4 –
I used to be example.com/forum, however lately I have been serving each individual web service on it's own subdomain so I can do different things with SSL.
eg.
with example.com/forum
and example.com/blog
They both have to be SSL if example.com is SSL, whereas:
forum.example.com
and blog.example.com
They both are considered separate entities and can be configured individually.
I currently have my forum completely delivered over SSL, and my blog only has the admin interface over SSL, the rest is standard HTTP. I also don't think example.com/forum is really all that useful unless you integrate all the services (eg have all of the services using the same framework).
Ideally I would like to have 1 software for example.com which deals with forum / blog / everything else (and can import my wordpress / forum / wiki).