My company, Civilution, is looking to get a hosted computer at
someplace like Rackspace, and I'm finding that these hosted computers
come with only ONE IP address, and that getting any more IP addreses
requires filling out these "IP justification" forms to the ARIN
people, etc.
Instead, they suggest that you do the "Name Based Hosting" trick,
where many domains are wired to the very same IP address. The web
server finds the requested domain in the GET request, and thereby
knows which domain the request was meant for.
(Like when four people live in the same house with the same mailing
address. Everyone's letters go in the same box, but you can tell by
the name at the top whom each of them is for.)
As IP addresses get even scarcer, I and the Rackspace people are
worried that ARIN will not give us more IP addresses just because our
web server program, AOLserver, can't handle Name Based Hosting.
Apache does this trick no problem, but we really really don't want to
get involved with Apache if we can help it.
Who out there has gotten Name Based Hosting to work with AOLserver?
(Or alternatively, who out there knows of a hoster that can give us 10
IP addresses with no problem?)
Thanks you all,
--Craig
