Re: How Come www Has Number as in http://www31.website.com?

Sep 29, 2005 0 Replies

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How come I saw some web site has some number after www, how can they do > that?
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It's just a name, which can be anything the site owner wants. The www prefix is a convention but there's no technical requirement that a site have www in its name.


When you see sites named wwwNN, that invariably means that they have a bunch of web servers sharing the load, and when you first visit the site as

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, it redirects you to one of the numbered servers picked either at random, or picking one with a relatively low load.


R's,



John


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