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oh, and i'll go in the well if someone can provide me with a satisfactory explanation why the URL
http://matchbook.com loads more reliably than
http://www.matchbook.com .
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Because their servers suck? There should be no difference. They both point to the same IP. The only thing that would make matchbook.com slower is if they were routing connections to that URL to another location as they came in to their server.