Some websites are prefixed with ww3 instead of www, what does this intell?
2006-06-13 23:53:25 · 4 answers · asked by Lisa G 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
That means they have a few servers.
For example, if yahoo has a few servers for redirect, then it might have addresses like ww2.yahoo.com and ww3.yahoo.com. ww2 would be 1 server and ww3 would another server. There are times that when a website does construction work, they might redirect all users to one server so that they can do production testing on the other server. Once the test is completed on both servers, then they put both servers back in the loop, and the users might get redirected to either servers depending on the traffic. Its just a way to balance out their internet traffic. If ww2 has too many users and its server is overloaded, then the rest of the users will be redirected to ww3...and vice versa.
2006-06-14 00:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The www part is only a host DNS entry. A URL is made up of:
www - host
mycompany - domain
com - tld
Putting it all together creates www.mycompany.com. Technically anyone could create anything for the www part and lately most web sites create the same DNS entry for both www.mycompany.com and mycompany.com negating the need to type www.
I haven't seen ww3 in use, but my guess would be if they are load balancing through a web server, you can distinguish machines behind the load balancer as ww3 ww2 ww1 etc and make the front entry page www.
There's no rules there.
2006-06-13 23:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by NYC2RTP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ww2 Internet
2016-12-12 13:38:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you own a domain name
like parazzipack.com
you can add any subdomian to it
like pack1.parazzipack.com
www as a subdomain is traditional and added by domain sales people as 'standard'
ww3 just means someone has added ww3 as a subdomain to their domain.
2006-06-13 23:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by JeckJeck 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
www for world wide web ,,,
there are many other prefix such as ww1 , ww2 or ww3 and these are for devices as well ....
such as mobile versions of sites ...
2006-06-14 00:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by Sara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋