What Is A Domain?

What are the advantages of hosting a web app via domain: www.<domain>.com vs app.<domain>.com?

  • Typically you would have www.<domain>.com on this you would have your website hosted. You could also host your web app at www.<domain>.com OR host it on on some other subdomain such as app.<domain>.com, secure.<domain>.com, client.<domain>.com etc Are there any advantages of having everything at www.<domain>.com? app.<domain>.com?

  • Answer:

    One quick advantage of having it at "www.<domain>.com" is that a lot of modern browsers will automatically prepend "www" to the address bar entry if it doesn't receive a DNS response (e.g., type http://google.com instead of http://www.google.com). There's no good way to get all the browsers to support your custom app. Also, as a point of clarification, the domain is <domain>.<TLD>; www.<domain>.<tld> and app.<domain>.<tld> are just nameserver (DNS) entries for that domain.

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