Implications of subdomain vs. subfolder for web services

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a couple web services that I use across my apps. My isp supports
exposing them either via subdomain (e.g. services.mydomain.com) or subfolder
(e.g. mydomain.com/services). Are there any implications for doing it one way
versus another? Performance? Security?

Thanks,

Bill

 

[cbDevelopment]

There will be no performance difference, but having the services as a
subdomain gives you more flexibility with security and scalability.

With a subdomain, you could move the services to whole different physical
server. You could do the same with a virtual directory, but you'd lose
performance because IIS would have to reroute all traffic to a remote
server.

A subdomain is a unique web site in IIS so it can have unique settings
for performance, caching, authentication, logging, etc.

Plus subdomains look more professional.

 

[Guest]

Very helpful...thanks for the thorough response.

There will be no performance difference, but having the services as a
subdomain gives you more flexibility with security and scalability.

With a subdomain, you could move the services to whole different physical
server. You could do the same with a virtual directory, but you'd lose
performance because IIS would have to reroute all traffic to a remote
server.

A subdomain is a unique web site in IIS so it can have unique settings
for performance, caching, authentication, logging, etc.

Plus subdomains look more professional.