Comment · Thu, July 16, 2015 · Ceretropic
THT is back
What they were answering
AFPJ · 2 points
That part is pretty usual, hosting stacks are configured to display content contingent upon request URL despite being located at the same IP - it's how you route requests to have multiple websites on the same dedicated IP. It can be a bit strange for people, especially those technically inclined but not quite involved in the industry, because they believe the URL is synonymous with an IP (which it is) but the URL itself (human-facing website name, ie., tht.co) is part of the request and is used by the server to display different content based on the URL string. Was that your question?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
I know how it technically works. I was a network engineer in a past life. I am just wondering why their two domain names resolve to different servers. Also, what legitimate hosting company uses a Dr. Evil picture as their splash page? If tht.co was on their old hosting, and they were moving to the new one, why did they put the same woocommerce backend on two different servers, rather than just redirect the URL to the new one?