Whats the advantage of subdomains

[kobacom]

Hi everyone

I now have my php/mysql poweres site up and running. I now want to add a new section for current news as opposed to long articles(which is what the site was designed for). What I want to know is what is the advantage(if any) of adding a subdomain to handle the news section rather than simply adding a new section the the existing site.

Kobacom

[Will Kelly]

I think a subdomain is completely un-necessary, it would be treated as a separate site by google/other search engines (not 100& sure on that though) and could also lead to more complications depending on your host setup etc.

Just do

domain.dom/news etc

[bokehman]

I think a subdomain is completely un-necessary

One of the uses is that a sub domain can be on a seperate server at a different location. I'm sure you must be able to see how useful that might be.

[Will Kelly]

Yes, but in this case quite clearly that was not the reason he was looking at using a sub-domain.