As I'm developing a new site, I'm just wondering about something - should I again remove www. - or is there a compelling reason not to? All I do is put in .htaccess this:
so that anytime someone accesses the site they're redirected to the sans-www. version (it redirects to the correct page). for instance, liking www.plamdi.com/movies/swcovers.htm redirects to plamdi.com/movies/swcovers.htm. The only benefit I know of to having a subdomain prefix is for server distribution (ie www. - sever 1, ww1. - server 2, ww2. - server 3), is there really any other benefit? does www.domainname.com actually LOOK any better then domainname.com?
Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.plamdi\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://plamdi.com/$1 [R=301,NC]