I was just wondering, how come some sites are www2.thesite.com? Eg, www2.bt.com but not www2.webmasterworld.com? Why is the two there? How did it get there? What's going on?!
Tastatura
3:16 pm on Apr 29, 2006 (gmt 0)
Most likely due to load balancing scheme on the respective site’s servers.
ahmedtheking
4:34 pm on Apr 29, 2006 (gmt 0)
So technically there could be www3. www4. ... wwwN.? How does it work?
jdMorgan
6:02 pm on Apr 29, 2006 (gmt 0)
It is simply an arbitrary subdomain name, like search.msn.com, www2.weather.com, or www.webmasterworld.com. You can name a subdomain whatever you want, within the domain- and URL-naming rules.
Jim
ahmedtheking
11:39 am on Apr 30, 2006 (gmt 0)
ok, i get it now, didn't think it was a sub domain!