[Sub Domain Question] Not administrator / I am hosted

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9n8oou$8lk at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Joy  <joyousair [r-e-m-o-v-e]@yahoo.com> wrote:
>So, is "hostname" the correct term that I should approach my webhost
>with?

Yes.  And if all these hostnames will be going to the same server, but
should return different pages, the phrase is "virtual hosts" or "virtual
servers".

>One thing I'm not clear on, as I've probably arlready made evident, is
>the significance of the 'www'. Now I understand that it is a hostname
>but does it have any more significance than that? ( I just now found
>my address returns the same with or without the 'www' ).  I had,
>probably incorrectly, believed that it was addition protocol on top of
>http.

No, it's just a name that's commonly used for web servers.  You can name
your server whatever you want.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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