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.
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.