Clueless Web Hosting
Here in the town where we operate our business there are two other web design businesses that offer their clients hosting as part of a package deal. Both of them seem to have some difficulty in understanding how things work on the Net.
If you were to enter any of the URLs of businesses that they host as:
http://www.domainame.com.au
you would see the client’s website without any hassles .
But if you were to enter the URL as:
http://domainname.com.au
you get something entirely different. From one host you get a custom 404 page that tells you that the site is experiencing difficulties and will be back online soon – although if you keep on entering the the URL without the ‘www’ it never does. For the other you get the generic 404 page.
It’s not rocket science to ensure that a client’s site comes up regardless of which way you enter a URL but somehow it seems to elude them.