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What does www2 or www3 mean in url?

Discussion in 'Products & Tools' started by kakasab, Apr 26, 2011.

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    anyone help me to understand the term www3.mydomain.com or www1.mydomain.com ?
     
    kakasab, Apr 26, 2011 IP
  2. Cpaiser

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    If the website has a lot of traffic, they usually setup some sort of system where it spreads the traffic across multiple servers. So sometimes you will get www2 www3 www15 etc... it just means you are hitting a different webserver...
     
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    They are basiaclly just the same as any other sub domain.
     
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  4. kakasab

    kakasab Active Member

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    okay, how do assign multi-servers ? or it is auto setup on apache ? anybody help !!!!!
     
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    likewise Peon

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    you can use nginX for content distribution. I usually do it using different DNS-A-Resource records for the same host, so machines will be redirected randomly between the servers and all of them still have the same hostname to a user. causes less confusion and is way easier to setup

    EDIT: Using different A-Records also makes it easier to redirect on geolocation(ie users from europe get redirected to a european server, us visitors get redirected to a us-based server and so on)
     
    likewise, May 27, 2011 IP
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    LOL @ you.

    Anyway, back to the question:
    BIG sites which has tons of traffic, even best dedicated servers find it hard to be handled. Because the resources used are just too much. So what they do is, have multiple servers run the site. So depending on the server you are connected you get to see www, www2 etc.
     
    friendlymentor, May 27, 2011 IP