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Probably some redundancy.
Michele would probably know a wee bit more about what they might be up to *glances toward Michele*.
Michele would probably know a wee bit more about what they might be up to *glances toward Michele*.
It's loadbalanced
Basically they have a setup with multiple web servers. You request the site's URI and you get sent to one of the web servers to view the content, so you could end up on one of the "www" iterations
There are other ways of doing this... where you have multiple A records ... I did this recently for one of our sites
Basically there is one hostname (URL) but it's pointing at multiple IP addresses. When your PC attempts to connect it gets a response from one of them ....
Basically they have a setup with multiple web servers. You request the site's URI and you get sent to one of the web servers to view the content, so you could end up on one of the "www" iterations
There are other ways of doing this... where you have multiple A records ... I did this recently for one of our sites
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host whois.blacknight.ie
whois.blacknight.ie has address 81.17.240.197
whois.blacknight.ie has address 81.17.252.5
whois.blacknight.ie has address 81.17.252.50
whois.blacknight.ie has address 217.114.173.67Basically there is one hostname (URL) but it's pointing at multiple IP addresses. When your PC attempts to connect it gets a response from one of them ....
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Wouldn't matter - worst case scenario is that only one domain gets indexed. Seen as they're all the same content this would have zero impact.
A lot of very big sites do this and they aren't suffering..
Well I stuck a randomly chosen phrase into G and got 70 duplicate pages from the site, if this is par for the course I could see G giving them a smack... "These inclue Dwyers Electrical, GardenRooms.ie, eircom" - Google Search
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