Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 12/29/05 19:08

Jose wrote:

> What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
> www2 mean?

'www' is just a convention that has been established in the early days of
the WWW. You can use any name as the subdomain part or none at all.
Names like www2 are sometimes used when there are more than one machine
hosting a website (load-balancing - you'll only have to worry about such
things, if you have to host a high-traffic site).

> What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
> and mysite.com?

These are different domainnames and could be used to host different sites -
but usually both names point to the same site.

If you care about your search engine ranking, you should only use one name
for your site - either www.example.org or example.org, whatever you prefer
(and configure the 'unused' domain to redirect to the 'official' domain).

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/

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