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In a sort-of-related curio, IBM still keeps around their bunch of “www2.ibm.com” subdomains or something like that—likely because some links around the web are
by aasasd 8y ago
In a sort-of-related curio, IBM still keeps around their bunch of “www2.ibm.com” subdomains or something like that—likely because some links around the web are pointing to them. Afaict these addresses were used as ‘poor man's’ load balancing before multi-tier backends became the norm.
- kalleboo 8y agoOne amusing form of poor-man's load balancing was in the original Netscape 1, which had hard-coded rules for certain netscape web servers where it would automatically generate www1/www2/etc subdomains randomly