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Re: Subdomains + Development = Sucks: A quick tip from Kevin Hale of Wufoo

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Post by tuukkah » Fri, May 25, 2007, 10:16 AM UTC

aaroniba wrote: post #20

Question: does the choice to use subdomains or subdirectories affect the stats that appear on traffic measuring sites like Alexa?

It affects some of the measuring sites, and web crawler speeds etc. Now Alexa implicitly says it doesn't affect their stats, but it would be nice to know something about their algorithm for distinguishing "recognized personal pages": http://www.alexa.com/site/help/?index=12 (edit: corrected the link to point to traffic rankings faq)

Re: Subdomains + Development = Sucks: A quick tip from Kevin Hale of Wufoo

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Post by sbraford » Sat, May 26, 2007, 4:58 PM UTC

I haven't implemented mass user-generated subdomains in PHP or Python, but it certainly was a snap to do in Rails.

User-created subdomains didn't seem like they really caught on until 37 Signals started having huge success.

Re: Subdomains + Development = Sucks: A quick tip from Kevin Hale of Wufoo

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Post by timg » Sun, May 27, 2007, 7:23 AM UTC

bls wrote: post #16

timg wrote: post #5

What I hate is that firefox/IE complain if you don't get one of these paid SSL certificates. The encryption of HTTP traffic should be free and without unneeded burden.

Comodo and other SSL providers will give you free certs that don't cause any warnings. But, they only last 3 months instead of 1 year.

Hey thanks! Do they cover all subdomains also though?