[johnchristopher]

I have some reasons to prefer domain.com/thing now :

- You don't have to add and manage subdomain

- You don't have to stop and restart the reverse-proxy of your VPS

- Only one cert to deal with (I use traefik w/ automatic LE renewal but that implied more things to set up on the chain)

But I still use blog.domain.com because I find it prettier. And when I need to type it in the URL bar it's just $service<tab>.domain<tab><enter>.

Now the SEO crowd has other requirements that make their choice more valid than my own (one user, one set of idiosyncrasies).

[bovermyer]

Those three concerns are one-off operations with minimal time investment, even if you don't automate most of the process.

[johnchristopher]

There are not one-off since I'd have to perform them every time.

[bovermyer]

Every time? I'm confused. How frequently are you setting up new blogs? If it IS frequent, why have you not automated the process?

[johnchristopher]

I am frequently setting up new services for try out which are not blogs (e.g.: vpn, online bookmarks manager, chat services, file syncing services, etc.). These require different setting in the reverse proxy and a different subdomain.