What is the difference between www2 and www

[bbalegere]

I have seen some sites having their url as www2.
What is this?
Can somebody explain it to me?

 

[3l3ctr1c]

www2 is a subdomain afaik.

 

[McDot]

www2 is a subdomain afaik.

www is also nothing other than a subdomain.

Just a little more standard. :lol:

 

[loscocco]

www is also nothing other than a subdomain.

Just a little more standard. :lol:

yep.. it directs you tot he web files in the server of the website you are looking at.

 

[neroux]

yep.. it directs you tot he web files in the server of the website you are looking at.

Could also point to a Gopher server

 

[NickSE]

It can be used for load balancing servers. www1 and www2 are two servers with identical info and then Round Robin or another method is used to divide the incomming users between the two servers, and in this scenario it's not the idea that the users picks between them, www.site.com with automatically show content from www1.site.com or www2.site.com

 

[Ray]

WWW. is nothing more than an A record. An record is bacically a dns zone via a webserver and domain.

It can be used for different ports and such

Confiquiring a dns zone as such can prevent web filters...
Ex: at work.. www.meebo.com and meebo.com are blocked
www34.meebo.com isnt blocked.. and its the same website with the same IP

 

[bbalegere]

It can be used for load balancing servers. www1 and www2 are two servers with identical info and then Round Robin or another method is used to divide the incomming users between the two servers, and in this scenario it's not the idea that the users picks between them, www.site.com with automatically show content from www1.site.com or www2.site.com

How do I do it for my site?
Let us say I have two servers with identical information.
If one server is down the site should load from the other site.

 

[curtk]

If you don't want to worry about the host naming 'www' vs 'www2', you can use a loadbalancer (lots of open source solutions out there) and put it in front of the web servers. Then, point 'www' to the loadbalancer and go from there!

Curt

 

[THE KOALA]

can someone twll me what www2 is but dumbed down 10 shades please?

thanks
koala