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Re:C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers by yyin on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:14AM (#11253765)
Why do you use http://packet.net as a URL in your comment when this only redirects to a www.packet.net subdomain, on Cloudflare?

Why not just use http://www.packet.net?

From the perspective of the user, wouldn't it be "more performant" to skip the gratuitous redirect, extra GET request and DNS lookups?

Maybe this is just marketing? Setting referrer, cookies? Fear of a thundering herd arising from an HN comment? Inadvertence? I don't understand.

Apologies for being so naive.

Re:C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers by LogicX on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:04PM (#11255725)
I don't work for them, just a customer. It just happened to be what I typed for their URL. I'm not intimately familiar with how every site I visit does their redirects.
Re:C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers by corobo on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:04PM (#11255728)
You're way overthinking this.. it's easier to type without the wwws. It'd be easier to type without the http:// too but HN might not autolink it