Change URL scheme to a single entry point system and add station domains

grand-decentral-station / concept

A "central" place for everyone to work on the concept for Grand Decentral.

http://decentralize.it

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Change URL scheme to a single entry point system and add station domains #48

Closed jansauer closed 10 years ago

jansauer commented 10 years ago

Having a single domain as entry point to GDS has some advantages against a multi sub domain solution.

Browser have to make less DNS request – faster page loads
Nameserver have to manage fewer entries – less complexity

If your GDS is running distributed on multiple machines you can use Round-robin DNS and DDNS for load balancing or fault-tolerance.

It should also be noted that URLs are getting less important – http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/

bastianallgeier commented 10 years ago

I completely agree with the single domain entry point, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the "URLs are getting less important" point. Only because Google tries to burry the URL to drive searches forward doesn't make them less important. In contrary I believe that a project like GDS is exactly the place to demonstrate how beautiful and meaningful URLs can make a concept and structure clearer for users.