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DYNAGOD:

what is the number next to the ww in some addresses..

like
http://www1.yahoo.com

ive been able to get as high as www16. before i get an error.

what exactly is this??

RacerX:

If you ping each of those, you'll see that www.yahoo.com hits a different server than www1, www2, etc. Not sure why they have different domain names set up like that, but that's all they are.

lokki:

--- Quote from: RacerX on November 12, 2004, 02:18:26 pm ---If you ping each of those, you'll see that www.yahoo.com hits a different server than www1, www2, etc. Not sure why they have different domain names set up like that, but that's all they are.

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They do this for load balancing purposes. This way they won't have 10,000 People hitting the same server at the same time. Each user gets a server assigned on a round robin type of queue.
(it is actually more complicated than that, load balancing sw/hw usually tries to determine which server is less busy and and of course up and running

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