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This is an interesting point. The www. prefix seems to be slowly fading away from the landscape, but URLs without the prefix never felt like first-class citizen
by yuvadam 15y ago
This is an interesting point. The www. prefix seems to be slowly fading away from the landscape, but URLs without the prefix never felt like first-class citizens on the web.
The inability to use CNAMEs in root level domains also affects other aspects, such as load balancing [1].
[1] - http://blog.y3xz.com/post/3920967238/the-anomaly-of-amazon-ec2-load-balancing http://blog.y3xz.com/post/3920967238/the-anomaly-of-amazon-e...
- delinka 15y agoMy reading of the heroku post seemed to indicate that the recommendation is for heroku customers only. Of course, if your own systems are using reverse proxy to serve up content, then the advice may also apply to you.
- hassy 15y agoI think "www" will make a comeback with increasing popularity of non .com/.net/.org TLDs. "whatever.io" looks like a web address to most of us here, but not to many others, even computer-savvy "normals".
- temptemptemp13 15y agoBut the webadmin of "whatever.io" is probably too cool to consider "www.whatever.io" as a viable web address for a startup company.
- tybris 15y agoSeems like Amazon is addressing this https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=67849&tstart=0 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=67849&...