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> The technical reasons to use www primarily apply to the largest web sites which receive millions (or more) of page views per day

How do GitHub and Twitter for example deal with this? Do they have to go through a lot of hoops in order to not use 'www'?



> Do they have to go through a lot of hoops in order to not use 'www'?

No, they don't. The claim that apex domains can't be used with CDNs is badly out of date.

Even a free-tier Cloudflare account supports CNAME flattening, which solves the problem just fine.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-C...


When you reach their size, it's not a big deal to build and maintain your own DNS serving infrastructure; in that case, you can do as you please, which might include serving up a pool of A records round-robin style or using an expensive magic DNS geodirector thingamabob.




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