On Fri 28 May 2004, Miernik wrote: > If my domain is foo.org should I put my webserver on www.foo.org or > just on foo.org ?
> Most people do it on both, but that is a really bad idea, becasue > everything would need to be cached twice, also on all transparent > proxies, company squids and home wwwoffle (I now you can do Alias, but > why should I make users trouble). Also things like google page rank > get dissipated, since some links point to one version and some to the > other. One alternative would be to put a redirection agent on foo.org that simply redirects the browser to the same url with www. prepended. That way either will work when typed in, but only one version is really accessed (and cached). Paul
