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Many smaller companies run there entire system on a standalone server, running many Web Sites from one server is called virtual hosting. These hosting services allow for the sharing of resources such as a Web server, Database server, firewall, etc.
Virtual Hosting Concepts
Different Web site will have distinct Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) which is served by a Web server. A FQDN is in two parts a host and a domain name (web1.datadisk.co.uk - host=web1 domainname = datadisk.co.uk), I have a brief introduction to domain names in my Exim section.
There are two ways that virtual hosting can be implemented
Virtual Hosting Concepts
Different Web site will have distinct Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) which is served by a Web server. A FQDN is in two parts a host and a domain name (web1.datadisk.co.uk - host=web1 domainname = datadisk.co.uk), I have a brief introduction to domain names in my Exim section.
There are two ways that virtual hosting can be implemented
- IP-based virtual hosting - each web site domain needs to have a different IP address
- Name-based virtual hosting - web sites share an IP address and the web server determines which domain the request is for based on the HTTP request headers more...
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