It doesn’t technically mean anything in particular — domains read right-to-left, so for everything to the left of a company’s domain, it’s up to the company what each bit means. (“www”, for example, is just a conventional subdomain for the web site of the company.) I‘ve no personal experience of what www1, www2 et al are commonly used for in practice. It might well be different ...
Web farms and load balancing Names like www1, www2, www3 are often used for members of a load-balancing farm of web-servers for popular web-sites where the workload is too much for a single server or where multiple servers are used to proivide continuity of service in the event of failure of a single server. An example of how it works A front-end server at www.example.com initially receives ...
I know it's to do with having a variety of load balancing servers, but why do some sites make use of differently named "www" sub domains (www2.somesite.com, www3.somesite.com etc) where as other ca...
Por que alguns domínios usam www2 e www3 no prefixo? Como por exemplo: www2.exemplo.com www3.exemplo.com Notei que alguns sites como do governo usam, mas não sei o motivo ao certo.
I have recently noticed some sites with URLs having ww2 or www2. What are they? Is there anything new that came up recently? Is there any link where I can get more information on that?
www2 most likely means that that you have been sent to their 2nd web server directly -- possibly they do not have load balancer properly configured .. or it is configured this way on purpose, so once redirected user stays there and not hitting balancer again.