i’ve noticed a few sites that use “www2.” instead of the normal “www”. what is “www2” and what’s the difference between the two???
just curious
A subdomain name that they have just created, I believe…
I mean the subdomain name like
movie.yahoo.com
shopping.yahoo.com
I could be totally wrong though… 
well… www. is just a subdomain - makes no difference really. Just a different subdomain 
You can go to kirupa.com or www.kirupa.com and it takes you to the same place. I’d think its a default subdomain that takes you to the root public directory.
Thought I’d jump in… agree, subdomain, really makes no difference, all sites take you to the same IP regardless if you do or do not include the subdomain (with a few exceptions)… but coming to my question…
www2, or anything else, what exactly is the POINT (.) ?
peace
Sometimes in a URL the “WWW” is followed by a number, such as “WWW1” or “WWW2.” The number that follows the “WWW” indicates that the data being retrieved by the Web browser is gathering the information from a different Web server than the one that serves the typical “WWW” address.
Ever heard of searching on webopedia?
www.mydomain.com is the address of a computer. www2.mydomain.com is the address of another computer (actually it could be the address of the same computer as the www computer, but it probably isn’t).
So the point is that these people have two webservers.
And the name of a webserver doesn’t have to include ‘www’ at all. It’s just something a lot of people do. It could be ‘aaa’, ‘webserver’, ‘thelittlebluecomputerinthecorner’ or anything you like.
What tells your browser that you’re trying to connect to a webserver is the ‘http://’ part of the URL. So using both ‘http://’ and ‘www’ is saying things twice actually…
