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What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
and mysite.com?

Jose
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You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

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).

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

Jose <> wrote:

>What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
>www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
>and mysite.com?
>
>Jose
In the beginning every computer on the Internet had a unique address.
To send a message to one of them you worked from right to left so you
sent a message to .com which knew the address of mysite.com which knew
the address of fredscomputer.mysite.com. A convention arose so that
you could expect a service to be provided by a computer that had a
suitable name. ftp.mysite.com handled all the FTP file transfers and
pop3.mysite.com handled all the incoming mail. Similarly, the computer
named www located at mysite.com is expected to handle all the http
requests.

The concept is simple but since there are a few computers on the way
they are likely to do some translations for you. If you enter
mysite.com into your browser it may translate it to www.mysite.com
before it accesses the Internet. A computer at mysite.com, or along
the way, could send all http requests to the machine called
fredscomputer.mysite.com but that computer can be programmed to
display the location as www.mysite.com. It may forward some requests
to another computer called www2.mysite.com. To add to the confusion
there can be a few hundred computers cooperating to look like one
computer called, for example, www.google.com.

Jose wrote:
> What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
> www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
> and mysite.com?
>
> Jose
> --
> You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.


So you are saying that love is helpless?

--
dorayme

> [re: my sig]
> So you are saying that love is helpless?

Love wells up (or not) of its own accord, and not as a result of a
conscious choice to have those feelings.

Jose
--
You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Jose wrote:
> > [re: my sig]
> > So you are saying that love is helpless?
>
> Love wells up (or not) of its own accord, and not as a result of a
> conscious choice to have those feelings.
>
> Jose

But one can bet that the feeling will come up if one gets a chance with
someone one sees or meets... I don't think it is so cut and dried. BTW,
the answers to your question have been well meant but not as clear as
they could be...I might have to have a go myself if someone with the
knowledge does not do a better job...

BTW, Mark, old son, we did thrash them and how....

wrote:
> Jose wrote:
>
>>What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
>>www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
>>and mysite.com?
>>
>>Jose
>>--
>>You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
>
>
>
> So you are saying that love is helpless?
>

There are probably a lot who have 'befriended/married' those who have a
big house or bank balance and had chosen not to fall in love with
someone who goes through garbage cans and stands on street corners
shouting at passing cars!

I prefer Gandhi's "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the
prerogative of the brave."

Richard.

Jose wrote:
> What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what does
> www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like www.mysite.com
> and mysite.com?
>
> Jose

Personally, I think the "www" prefix is outdated. I never type it in
anymore, 'cause if a site requires the prefix, Firefox handles it nicely.

Firefox is my best friend.


Cheers,
Daniel

> and had chosen not to fall in love with...

had chosen not to get close enough to allow it to happen. Different.

Jose
--
You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

says... (moved to this thread)
> But one can bet that the feeling will come up if one gets a chance with
> someone one sees or meets...

I don't get that feeling with everyone I meet. And I bet that if the
feeling does well up for real, you can't (easily) shove it back down.

> I don't think it is so cut and dried.

Nothing is. Life can't be reduced to a sig, but sometimes a piece of it
can be illuminated from a different angle thus.

Jose
--
You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.