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[goku262002]

I was re-working some of my multi-home page links (yes i have SSMB as one of my home pages!) and i typed in "http://www.board.sonicstadium.org/" i got a 404 but when i took out the "www." it worked.

Is this some kind of bug? Or did you guys just not register with the "www." link?

Edited by goku262002, 25 February 2010 - 02:00 PM.

[bmn]

Yeah, www is off, and always will be for SSMB since we've switched to the "board" subdomain.

The "www" subdomain originally came about because, back in '91 when the world wide web was inaugurated, a server would be dedicated to a single job. Thus, there'd be one server for the web, one for FTP, one for SMTP, one for Usenet, one for email... and in order to make all those work on a single domain, you needed subdomains to point to the right location. "www" was the subdomain that referred to the web server.

Nowadays only bigger sites actually need more than one server, so in practice you can type in sonicstadium.org and get the right IP for all those services that used to need their own subdomain. That means that everywhere else, subdomains have taken on the role of enabling multiple websites on a single domain instead.

For that reason, current best practice is to either use www.domain.tld as originally intended, or just domain.tld on its own. Our - or rather, my - stance is that we don't like to have "sonicstadium.org" on its own; everything should have some kind of subdomain. It also helps us organise a couple things better, which is always nice. On TSS, www refers to the "default" website - the main TSS site. All our other sites have their own subdomains, and www.subdomain.domain.tld has never been best practice so we're not going to do it ;p


But regardless, it's nice to know we're one (or more o_O) of your homepages, stroke the ol' ego etc. ^_-

[goku262002]

Oh ok so its intended. but since the site itself doesn't re-direct after typing "www." in the url bar does that mean the domain name "http://www.board.sonicstadium.org/" can be stolen? if it can, maybe on the safe side you guys should re-direct it.

Yeah usually I'm used to typing ol "www." (I'm from the days of 2001 where "domain.tld"-like urls wasn't quite excepted yet) I've seen retro and other forums with v-bulletin board have both "www.subdomain.domain.tld" and "subdomain.domain.tld" as both main urls. i thought the site was down at first!

You guys are number 3 on my list. be proud

[bmn]

Kool.

Anyway, nah, there's no danger of us losing a subdomain to a shady character, nothing to worry about there. The way it works is you buy the rights to a domain (in this case, sonicstadium.org) for however so many years, and that gives you control over everything under that domain. So once you have the domain, you don't have to register any subdomains, it's just a case of setting them up in a control panel or something.

[Sean]

Nothing more satisfying to experience than an internet history lesson from the B'man!

[bmn]

Don't you mean nothing more boring?

[Diz]

I find it interesting actually as it is relevant to what I do at school.

I consider the topic's purpose to be answered, so I will lock the topic. =)

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