How to Design Tenant-Specific Subdomains in Your SaaS Application

Arpit Jain
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readMar 29, 2021

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I recently worked on a feature for configuring tenant-specific custom subdomains in our product. In this article, I am sharing some of the designs our team iterated on, and their pros and cons.

What are tenant-specific subdomains?

Tenant-Specific Subdomains (a.k.a. custom subdomains) are a common feature provided in a multi-tenant SAAS solution, allowing each tenant to configure a subdomain of their choice.

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Arpit Jain
Geek Culture

Scalability & Big Data Enthusiast | Microsoft | Sumo Logic | UW Madison | Myntra | IIT Guwahati