[mb-users] Website urls: to www. or not

[Steve Wyles]

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Eric Gillingham wrote:

> Why would a website suddenly decide they would make the effort to go in
> and remove a DNS entry that is getting traffic, heck they could just as
> easily remove www.! So by all your logic and reasoning we should ban
> www. in URI's as well.

It's not a matter of somebody removing it deliberately, it can happen by 
accident or the alias configuration on the web server can easily be 
removed.

I will repeat the advice given by numerous people already in this thread. 
Unless you know exactly what you are doing and can read the minds of the 
people administering the dns and web server configuration for a site, 
don't change anything!

The long standing internet standard for web sites is to have www. at the 
front. It is only in recent years that there is a tendency for it to be 
dropped.

I've worked in the Internet industry (both as Senior Sys Admin for an ISP 
and freelance consultant) for over 10 years. I've forgot the number of 
times I've have to quickly adjust the configuration of a customer site 
because they've printed thousands of adverts or business cards wrong!

Basically, if the URL works as it is, don't change it!

Steve (inhouseuk)