One-time install, domain and hosting

[carninglipartners (Dan Lucas)]

@codinghorror

You can put Discourse at www.example.com or example.com if you want, but we only recommend that if you are absolutely sure you will never, ever have any other content on the domain.

Like the original poster here I am thinking of grabbing a domain name (example.com) and buying the “one-time install” package to get Discourse up and runnning. The plan is to run a small forum, but in future I may want to implement other functionality in addition to the forum.

1. In your comment above, do you mean that an address like discourse.example.com or forum.example.com is a more futureproof approach?
2. If so, I assume changing that address is easy to do, or is that done as part of the one-time install?

Thanks
Dan