how should I implement dynamic subdomains?

[Yanni Chiu]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> That seems terribly inefficient, forking or restarting incurs a large
> performance penalty.

Each app server would be started on demand, and self-terminate when 
inactive. At this point, making my app server support multiple sites 
seems harder than kicking off instances for each site.

> Using the application you're deploying to handle new subdomains instead
> of reloading Apache would be easier. For example, Drupal, Wordpress etc.
> have multi-site support that runs off a single codebase.

Okay, I'll look into how they support multi-site.

> That way you can have a static Apache VirtualHost for *.foo.com and let
> your application handle the logic or serving up particular subdomains.
> It also keeps things limited to ports 80 and 443 as Ted Leslie pointed out.

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