The https:// is the “secure” part. It will only work if you have an SSL cert on your server.
www is just the subdomain. Up to you which you’d like to use really. Personal preference is no www.
No, it’s a matter of preference and has no functional difference. Personally I prefer without the www because it’s just no longer necessary.
This comes from the very early days of the internet when most sites were Gopher and/or were named by the services provided. If you owned example.org you would have the “web” server on http://www.example.org, FTP would be provided through http://ftp.example.org, email by mx.example.org, NNTP on nntp.example.org and so on.
In modern day it’s only really useful if the www subdomain is a CNAME to a cluster of webservers, because you can’t do that with just a single A record in DNS.
Thanks. I went ahead and installed the WordPress sites without www.
The https:// is the “secure” part. It will only work if you have an SSL cert on your server.
www is just the subdomain. Up to you which you’d like to use really. Personal preference is no www.
No, it’s a matter of preference and has no functional difference. Personally I prefer without the www because it’s just no longer necessary.
This comes from the very early days of the internet when most sites were Gopher and/or were named by the services provided. If you owned example.org you would have the “web” server on http://www.example.org, FTP would be provided through http://ftp.example.org, email by mx.example.org, NNTP on nntp.example.org and so on.
In modern day it’s only really useful if the www subdomain is a CNAME to a cluster of webservers, because you can’t do that with just a single A record in DNS.
Thanks. I went ahead and installed the WordPress sites without www.