Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:35:19 +0200 From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP vs CNAME Message-ID: <20000602213519.H50166@draenor.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021222310.87193-100000@pogo.caustic.org>; from jan@caustic.org on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:23:29PM -0700 References: <393805AD.28ACF39D@wmptl.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021222310.87193-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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On the other side of the fence, I would have to say that I think CNAME's is a better idea. I work for a large ISP and all our web servers use HTTP 1.1 and CNAME's. Generally, it's only REALLY old browsers (netscape 2 comes to mind) that have problems with this. IP address are more difficult to maintain and keep track of, and your web server will look a lot cleaner with just 1 IP on it, rather than thousands. :) Cheers, Marc On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:23:29PM -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote: > > generally, i think it's better to do IP based virtualhosting. > > it's not so much of a performance issue, it just makes it cleaner with > older browsers, and makes it easier to track problems with servers. > > just my $0.02. > > -- jan > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > > We are a relatively small ISP looking to grow. We're now starting to do > > virtualhosting for people, and thus far I've been setting up > > virtualhosts using cnames. The thing is, we've currently three almost > > entirely free class C banks of IP addresses, and I was wondering if it > > would be better to use IP based virtualhosting, or stick with our > > current scheme of using cnames to one host? > > Could anyone explain the performance differences if any involved in > > using IP vs CNAME virtualhosts? Or does it matter at all? Pors/cons, > > that kind of stuff please. > > > > > > -- > > Nathan Vidican > > webmaster@wmptl.com > > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > > http://www.wmptl.com/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ > email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan > "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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