> People have always said to host your site at www and redirect to it, something I have never understood nor heard a convincing argument for. It comes from the

> People have always said to host your site at www and redirect to it, something I have never understood nor heard a convincing argument for. It comes from the long-lost days when people actually ran their own servers, and would have [www,mail,ns1,ns2,intranet,chat].example.com servers. If you already have a lot of special-purpose domains, it seems weird to privilege "www" as the real example.com, so the recommendation was to redirect from it.