Different of www1 and www

[cakka]

What the diferrent of www1 and www?
Thanks.

[Jordan]

Moved to the correct forum.

They are different sub-domains. Just as forum.codecall.net and CodeCall Programming are different. The system administration can make these whatever he/she wants.

[WingedPanther]

Also note that most people who notice the www1 prefix are likely to get suspicious of the site.

[cakka]

Ehm.. ic... i think some site is redirect to www1 for better performance .... ?
Maybe

[Jordan]

Simply changing the name of the subdomain does not improve performance.

[rhoan]

thank for that info...

[WingedPanther]

If you have a site:

http://www.mydomain.com

, odds are that any other sites you have are going through the same web server, such as

forum.mydomain.com, blog.mydomain.com, etc.

The result is that the same computer is processing the request, regardless of the source. However, somebody else could register

www1.mydomain.com

, which would mean that the two websites could be from completely different companies, such as

http://www.capitalone.com

could be legit but

www1.capitalone.com

could be a phishing site trying to steal your data.