Subdomain vs Subfolder for better server performance

  • HI

    I’m running a website on VPS Centos 6. I want to add a store to my website and I would like to know if it is better to use a subdomain for an online store or just a folder? eg. store.domain.com or https://www.domain.com/store

    My VPS sometimes struggles with loads and excessive processes already, so I would like to know what is best practice.

    Many thanks

    Clare

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  • I can’t say with 100% certainty, but I’d guess that a sub-folder is more likely to require fewer resources. I say that because a sub-domain is likely to be a treated as a separate site by the service with it’s own memory footprint and other server resources. Whereas a sub-folder would share the resources for the parent folder particularly if the same technology is used to power all parts.

    A sub-domain has advantages though as it would be much easier to move the sub-domain elsewhere or under a different account should you need to scale up the resources allocated to it.

    Thread Starter scullydion

    (@scullydion)

    Thanks Marios, I will go with subfolder – seems logical. Then when my shop is earning megabucks I can pay someone else to worry about moving it to another server ??

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    In all truth, it makes no difference. Depends on your setup, of course, but realistically the same server instances are used for both.

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