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>2. What is a Virtual Web Site?</A
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> A World Wide Web (WWW) Server is normally a single machine dedicated to
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processing HTTP requests for a single WWW site. Simply put, one WWW site
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per machine. Since the computing resources for processing httpd requests is
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low for most WWW sites, the majority of the computing resources are left
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unused. A virtual WWW site simple allows more than one WWW site to share a
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single processor. Instead of having www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com
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requiring two physical computing devices, www.domain1.com and
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www.domain2.com can be located on a single computing device and share common
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resources.
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> Normally small computing facilities, and small businesses do not have the
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resources to maintain a dedicated web server and a dedicated Internet
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connection. These cost can easily start off at $10K for setup, and
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$500-2500 monthly to maintain. Small computing facilities, and small
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businesses are now able to "rent" WWW space from a Virtual WWW providers.
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The customer can then maintain the WWW "pages" using a local telnet and/or
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FTP connection.
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> WWW providers such as InfoCom Networks http://www.infocom.net/
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provide WWW space as low as $75 per month. A few Virtual Sites
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might clear up the mystery. So the cost of setting up a WWW site is
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significantly lower than that of setting up a dedicated server and
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connection. The Virtual Site has a major advantage over other WWW
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addressing schemes such as "www.yourprovider.com/~businessname". The
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Virtual WWW server inherently contains the ability to move to a new location
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or setup a dedicated WWW server without changing addresses. Changing WWW
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URL's can result in a major loss of traffic to your site, and lots of
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business literature updates.
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> With most web sites, www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com both resolve to
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separate IP's. In order to accept multiple request from a single host, the
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virtual host must be able to answer request for both sites. The method used
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to solve this problem is called IP aliasing. IP aliasing allows a single
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host to accept request for multiple IP's. The virtual Web server must have
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the ability to alias IP's
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> IP aliasing is just one part of the virtual solution. The Domain Name System
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(DNS) also must be configured to resolve both www.domain1.com and
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www.domain2.com. If domain1.com and domain2.com are new domains, then both
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must be registered with Internic. Currently, Internic is charging $50 a year
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to maintain your domain.
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> Most virtual WWW sites should also provide virtual mail, or the ability to
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forward all mail to the virtual domain to another user or users.
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</P
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> Virtual FTP or the ability to FTP using the standard host name
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"ftp.domain1.com" should also be configured by the WWW provider.
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