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Anonymous

Oct 26, 2024

What does ww5 in a website address mean?

I was doing research on breast cancer and visited the Susan G. Komen website, which has the address ww5.komen.org. I was wondering what the "5" in the URL signifies.

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Anonymous

Feb 22, 2025

Probably just means that they have (at least) five web servers supporting the site. When you type "www" you get redirected to whichever server has the least load at the time. You wound up on server number five.

It's not technically required to name your web server "www". That's just a convention that most everybody uses. You can actually name it whatever you want--like this site uses "answers".

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Zion White

Feb 16, 2025

It's just an arbitrary host name assigned to the web server. The name can be anything at all. The use of 'www' is just a convention and has no technical meaning.

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