[Sparkz]

Originally posted by hellsatan
Well...

forums.mysite.com is really mysite.com/forums, but usually, things that are / something are an addition to the main site, whereas as something.mysite.com tends to be notified as a Linked site, but it isnt an addition to the site as a whole, just a sideproject, which supports itself rather than relying on the site...

Its all psychological...

Satan

Uhh... Let's see, I have a bunch of subdomains, and not a single one of them are the same as domain.tld/whatever. It can be like this of course, but it doesn't have to.

whatever.domain.tld is in essence the exact same thing as www.domain.tld. In many cases it's just an alias to some part of the 'mother' site, in other cases it's on a server on the other side of the planet. Personally, I have a few development sited on subdomain, where I mirror the main domain to get a test platform that has the exact same setup as where stuff will run in the end. I also have subdomains where friends of me that are on cable with static IP's have their webpages. I merely point the said subdomain to their computer, etc...

Enough ranting. Most likely noone understood squat of what I just said, but I'll press the submit button anyways...