Was just thinking, how much bandwidth would be saved if everyone quit using www.domain.com and only accessed websites via domain.com I mean, on the internet a whole. DNS queries, http requests, ftp session variables.
Hi cheapez this basically is the work of the DNS and the www is the alias and yes in a way a little more bandwith is used for this process.
you are correct....I have always been using just the domain names in address bar to access the sites, mostly to save time and effort. Regards, RightMan
I never know that using www cost more bandwidths.. How much bandwidth cost is the difference between www and none-www?
Might this be ub3r from WHT? I recognize this post from there, almost identical! In either case, I'd say figure out how many bytes 4 characters are (www.) and add that to every request in a given time. Probably not very much for a single site/server, but the internet as a whole, would most likely make a difference.
till now i dont have any idea that using just the domain name may save bandwidth. but how come its possible.
Bill Gates from Microsoft estimates that 30,000,000 dollars a day is spent on redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com
Well among ourselves that wouldn't be much of a difference if any, but I see now on a widescale cutback, it'd make enough to bump someone.
Wow, that is quite interesting. Is there any solid proof that using www uses up more bandwidth then just typing name.com?
The 30M per day for Bill gates is kind of an overstatement but lots of bandwidth can probably be saved if everyone used the non-www version of their domain