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by rfraile 3059 days ago
Apart - Why they use the url with the "www8." name instead of "www."?
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discreditable 3059 days ago
HP's website is legendarily disorganized and horrible.
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DonHopkins 3058 days ago
Because you have to wwwait for it.
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wishinghand 3059 days ago
Gibson Guitars used to do this too with www2, but it looks like they've cleaned up their act.
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slobotron 3059 days ago
IIRC, different internal groups get control of different www{n} subdomains.
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jagger27 3059 days ago
www8.hp.com has two A records that point to Akamai. My guess is that it's easier to mess with a subdomain for global CDN stuff than the top level.
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