Two or more webs at home

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 22 Apr 2009, at 13:48, Matthew Walker wrote:

> On Wed, April 22, 2009 1:45 pm, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)  
> wrote:
>> Is it possible to host/serve/run two or more web sites at one  
>> location
>> with one static IP?
>>
>> I have my web but my three boys will soon want to set up their own  
>> web
>> sites and update and manage each on their own. Can these all run  
>> from my
>> home network? These will not likely be commerce sites, but just fun,
>> more or less static sites for my boys to get their feet wet.
>>
>> Am I thinking of virtual servers? What are the possibilities here?
>
> Name Based Virtual Hosting is what you're thinking of. And yes, it's  
> very possible. Only
> reason to need multiple IPs is if you have SSL sites.
>
If I were to venture guess at the statistics I would say that 75% of  
all web sites in the world are sharing an IP address with other web  
sites.