Our website is a marketplace for digital downloads. The entire system is built on Laravel, and we’re currently looking into options for adding in a blog and tutorial section that will require a CMS.
That said, our dev is recommending that we use Craft (https://buildwithcraft.com/) as the CMS for the blog, tutorials, and for the rest of the site. We'll then move the Laravel system that handles our user system and products into a subdomain. It would look something like browse.oururl.com instead of oururl.com/browse.
He said the only other option is to hack something together using Laravel Bootstrap, (https://github.com/davzie/laravel-bootstrap) or something similar, for handling the blog and tutorials. The drawback is that it wouldn't be as robust.
Should we be concerned about using a subdomain for this purpose? Will there be any performance issues? SEO issues? Low T issues?
Maybe we’re making a mountain out of an ant nipple, but it's hard not being a coder and not knowing any better. I though I’d ask HN’s advice before giving the go ahead.
Thank you in advance for your advice.
-T