It is, but bear in mind many companies have different architectures or even hosts behind their blogs vs their main site (or even product). For example, a Rails or Django app for the main site, PHP/Tumblr/Wordpress.com for the blog.
There are some proxying shenanigans you can do with mod_rewrite but I'd certainly not want a PHP-based blog anywhere near my main site/app if I could get away with it due to the security risks.
That's pretty trivial to do with nginx though, isn't it? I have a server that can run php on certain subdomains AND folders, node.js on others and I suppose ruby would be pretty easy too.
In fact, on one domain nginx sends part of the traffice /static/ directly to that actual directory, and anything else gets picked up by node.js.
Or is what I'm doing really stupid? I'm not currently running anything significant on my servers, and this is not my primary domain of interest, so I've never checked how risky my setup is. Maybe you could tell me if that's the case?
I always roll my eyes when that happens. And then there is a 50/50 chance I search for the actual link - if I'm REALLY interested I edit the URL manually.
Yep! I always wondered if that bugged anyone else. I imagine the purpose of people spending the effort to blog and advertise it was to drive traffic to their company. Then I have to jump through hoops to get to the actual company's page.
This is the most annoying thing about most blogs, and like others on HN I don't bother to visit the main page since I'm usually in reading mode (hand on mouse, away from keyboard). To their credit there is also an About StatusPage button (not sure if that was added after the fact).
