Re:Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 1...
by jazoom on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:39PM
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What's the actual benefit of a subdomain for each user?
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Re:Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 1...
by chris_overseas on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:59AM
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Hopefully "user" really means "company" rather than individual user. Otherwise copy/pasting URLs between colleagues won't be much fun.
Re:Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 1...
by jazoom on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:42AM
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I'm sure it does. But I still can't see the benefit of a subdomain rather than a subdirectory.
Re:Show HN: Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 1...
by daenney on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:29AM
(#13828371)
It could be easier for load balancing or if you want to shard. You could do it at the DNS level at that point, without needing to strip the TLS bits, decode the HTTP request and go from there.
For the end user though I can't see much of a benefit of a subdomain over a URL path, or the other way around. I don't think it matters much but the author might have bigger plans in which having the subdomain could be easier.