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So I'm currently working on a small personal product for non-commercial use. The product is freeware and has plugin/addin capabilities. The question is wether I should get a seperate domain name for the product or host it on a subdomein of my private website? The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly.
modified on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:24 AM
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So I'm currently working on a small personal product for non-commercial use. The product is freeware and has plugin/addin capabilities. The question is wether I should get a seperate domain name for the product or host it on a subdomein of my private website? The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly.
modified on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:24 AM
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So I'm currently working on a small personal product for non-commercial use. The product is freeware and has plugin/addin capabilities. The question is wether I should get a seperate domain name for the product or host it on a subdomein of my private website? The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly.
modified on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:24 AM
Get the domain name. It costs stuff all. But host it in a sub-folder on your private domain. That way you're not paying for extra hosting, and the url can still be friendly. (providing your hosting account allows for multiple domain names, if it doesn't....Change). Then, Just point the dns of your new domain to www.Yourprivatedomain.com/newdomainfoldername/ ...or somthing like that.
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So I'm currently working on a small personal product for non-commercial use. The product is freeware and has plugin/addin capabilities. The question is wether I should get a seperate domain name for the product or host it on a subdomein of my private website? The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly.
modified on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:24 AM
Hi, if you are serious about your non-commercial product (and have expectations for it to become something huge), it is well worth it to purchase it's own domain for $5. You can always host the site on your current server, but point the DNS to the new domain. The last comment I would like to make is that you mentioned that the URL is "unfriendly".. this should just be another reason to purchase a more "friendly" URL, so the product has a better chance to become something significant to the community and not just be a waste of your time. :-) Best of luck.
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So I'm currently working on a small personal product for non-commercial use. The product is freeware and has plugin/addin capabilities. The question is wether I should get a seperate domain name for the product or host it on a subdomein of my private website? The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly.
modified on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:24 AM
"The real problem is that if it were to become popular, the url is rather unfriendly" Interesting question because nowadays many people do not need to remember urls as they did in the past - google takes care of urls. I have some freeware that sees +-500 downloads a day(from my site). The vast majority of hits are through other sites that provide links to my site - and many sites copy my download and host it themselves. So a friendly url is not necessarily vital... However in the end I think having a separate domain name for your software/products just adds that little bit more of a professional feel to it...
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