Re: [TCLUG:19847] Two webservers on one machine?

[Yaron <jethro@freakzilla.com>]

  Hi,

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> > If you can get different IP addresses, you can get Apache to listen to a
> > specific one. No idea about the AOL server.
> Would I need two network cards for this? 

Not if it's running most modern Unices. Under Linux (and Solaris and
probably a bunch of others) you can setup an aliases to the interface. For
example, if your NIC is eth0, you can have eth0:0, eth0:1..eth0:n.

> I was reading this hosting company's website which was explaining one of
> the great things about their service is that each virtual host gets a
> differnt IP address, so if one of the customers on the same machine was
> shut down for spamming or something, you wouldn't be affected.

I don't know how true that is. Unless they are using dedicated NICs.


-Yaron

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