msi200 — Sat, 22 May 2004 21:17:32 +0000

Quote: why the need to enter a "www."??

Whatever the reason is for your problem, you should ask your host to fix it. Many people(like myself) might try to visit your site by typing the url without the 'www'.

You need all the visitors to come to your site, don't you? If your host can't fix this, consider moving

Just my 2 cents

Renegade — Fri, 21 May 2004 10:09:36 +0000

sandipear wrote: Also, the need to enter the www only started a few months ago, after a change by the webhost (i think) - they haven't said but I haven't changed anything so...

Well have you tried asking the webhost? It seems to be their settings.

cubdriver — Thu, 20 May 2004 19:21:11 +0000

On my own sites, I find that domain.com loads a whole lot faster than domain.com. This is true on two different hosts.

manos — Mon, 17 May 2004 21:59:42 +0000

Personally I get annoyed when i type an address e.g { example.com } w/o the www. and it does not resovle at all. I think that is Unprofessional.

sandipear — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:35:09 +0000

Bob set up the network about 3-4 years ago and left the company 2years ago. When he left i somehow became the "computer person" in the office because of interest and apptitude - I have no formal training. (Things have been going fine and obviously I've learned a lot)

Anyway, i've emailed Bob re the problem so we'll see what he says.

Also, the need to enter the www only started a few months ago, after a change by the webhost (i think) - they haven't said but I haven't changed anything so...

andy206uk — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:25:10 +0000

BTW... who's bob?

andy206uk — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:23:25 +0000

davidjaymz wrote: there a loads of "professional" sites out there where you have to use www. I can't think of any at the mo... but i do stumble across them kinda often...

DJ

http://yell.co.uk / http://www.yell.co.uk

Personally I think its just down to laziness or a lack of knowledge. I can't think of any sensible reason why you wouldnt want the none www. domain to resolve.

sandipear — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:08:44 +0000

Given our reluctance to change hosts I asked them (the host) to solve the www problem with our sites.

He said "I began a thread on Feb 28 regarding a webhost the required users to

I have spoken to Engineering. Our reluctance to change the settings dates
back to when Bob first set up your internal mail servers. Bob had some
trouble getting them set up to work properly and asked us to set up a
special configuration in our DNS and on our mail server.

We can easily make the appropriate changes so that your users can omit the
www prefix when visiting your websites. However, we do not know how the
changes will affect your mail servers. The changes may break the servers
and we cannot take any responsibilities for any mail problems.

May I recommend that, as the BOB's replacement, you review your mail
needs. As I had mentioned before we now can offer IMAP email accounts as
BOB was originally interested in."

what do you guys think of this?????????

we have an internal mail server and access to that server via webmail.xxx.com, and we are a small office of 10 computers, if that makes a difference

Netflavors — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:30:09 +0000

I think it all comes down to the fact that there are a number of users, both novice and not, who will not type in the "www", and you will lose those visitors. It is especially ridiculous that your host will not give you a choice. I say dump them asap.

mairving — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:22:20 +0000

davidjaymz wrote: there a loads of "professional" sites out there where you have to use www. I can't think of any at the mo... but i do stumble across them kinda often...

DJ

I wouldn't say that there are loads but yes there are some. Most are just misconfigured DNS settings. Adobe used to be that way but have since changed. I recently had to setup a site for a guy that had a static IP address. They DSL provider had a way online to setup the DNS record. However, using their form you could only enter a site with a www in it. So I had to email them to get it setup right. It is still crazy to not have both ways work since why do you want to risk someone not going to your site because they didn't type in the www.