[gui-talk] WWW2

[Wayne Merritt]

Thanks for this. Perhaps I didn't explain my question enough initially. On 
some sites, I'm starting to see the address, for example:
www2.site.com
instead of
www.site.com

I was wondering if the
www2.site.com
was a new naming convention, of adding the number 2, and wanted a 
nontechnical explanation of the change.

Hope this helps clarify,
Wayne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Oppermann" <chuckop at microsoft.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] WWW2


> The prefix "www" before a web address is just a convention, there is no 
> requirement that there is a "www" or anything before the domain name.  You 
> can access the same content by specifying "http://microsoft.com" or 
> "http://www.microsoft.com".
>
> The idea is the first part of an internet address is name of the server, 
> so many sites can distribute load between many servers.  Normally the 
> address that appears doesn't change, but on some sites it might.
>
> --Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:22 PM
> To: GUI Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] WWW2
>
> Greetings. I just noticed on the Blogger dashboard an address with www2., 
> in the address bar. What does the 2 represent, and are there any other 
> differences for the average user verses the old www.address.com style?
>
> Many thanks,
> Wayne
> www.wayneism.com
> My blog:
> http://wayneism.blogspot.com
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