Disclaimer: This is not a strictly-programming question, but a general how-to one. I've been programming in Laravel for some time, so what I need is an advice on preparing the setup described below.
The idea
I am planning to do some freelance web development and put Laravel at the heart of it. To do that, I would like to start with setting up a global staging for my future clients, so each of them can see their website progress at any time.
The idea I have is a "client hub" - central gate to individual stagings:
- Client accesses example.com/client and logs in with provided credentials
- On successful login, the client is redirected to their respective staging
Question
My initial thought was to keep each client in a single subfolder, with clean Laravel installation. Is it a good idea in terms of security/efficiency? What programming problems may this create?
Other idea is a subdomain for each client. Problem is, this means a vhost for every new Laravel installation, and every vhost equals costs.
What do you think? Subfolders or subdomains?
