Hi, The former is a website in its own right. The latter is some kind of "subsite" in the sense that it's a portion of an existing website.
If you don't want to load balance all the content across all the servers, then the former can be accommodated via DNS (just point the DNS entries to the correct IP addresses of the servers in question). The latter requires some kind of application layer logic (either in a hardware load balancer, or in your application itself), as DNS is only aware of the host name, and not specific files/folders contained at that FQDN. As for "best practise" this really depends on your application architecture and so on. Cheers Ken From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 1 March 2008 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Best practices in setting up a web site with IIS Hi folks, Question in setting up a website. We will be using IIS (this has been decided by others, and I can't change it). Should subsites be: www.subsite.ourdomain.com<http://www.subsite.ourdomain.com> or www.ourdomain.com/subsite<http://www.ourdomain.com/subsite> Which is better practice? We will be spreading across multiple servers, with each server hosting one or two subsites. If the latter, what the preferred way of setting things up so the subsite gets pointed to the right server? I know it's Friday. If you want to wait until Monday, that's fine with me. Have a great weekend. Mark ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
