Talk:Virtual hosting

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[edit] Why don't you merge this with Shared web hosting service?

Georgewilliamherbert, why do you say Virtual hosting (as described in this article) is different from Shared web hosting service (as described in that article) ? I can see that "virtual hosting technology" is distinct from "virtual hosting service" which implements the technology, but the articles 90% overlapping; no problem talking about both the "technology" and the "service" in the same article. No inter-article links before I came here; seemed like obvious merge to me. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-13 02:32Z

Most importantly, because there are a lot of non-Shared web hosting service applications out there for Virtual hosting web technology. The two are not close to an exact overlap in terms of usage.

Merging, particularly merging towards Shared web hosting service, minimizes or obscures all those other uses for virtual hosting technology. I, personally, have set up ... let's count them... probably 2 dozen virtual webserver systems over the last 5 years, of which 1 was in the business space of shared web hosting service. The others included applications where it wasn't even public facing in some cases (intranets, B2B, etc) and were generally operated and owned by the company using them.

Pointing out that there was overlap is a good thing, and pointing out the lack of linkage is a good thing; merging is in my opinion a major mistake.

This is why I always recommend people (and try to practice) waiting for merges for a week or so, to see what percolates on the Talk pages before you impliment the change... Georgewilliamherbert 02:45, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, would you be happy if we merged "the other way", i.e. shared web hosting service is described as a subset of this? —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-13 03:13Z

Hmm. Maybe. There is plenty to potentially say about shared hosting providers which isn't relevant to the technical article, but I don't know that it would be necessarily wrong. Third opinions, anyone? Georgewilliamherbert 03:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Virtual hosting services are not always WWW services. You also can have virtual hosting for email, Jabber,... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.224.83.20 (talk • contribs).

Well, the two articles we're talking about are both talking about web virtual hosting only. Certainly other hosting services like email, IRC, DNS, etc., can run services for multiple sites/domains on one machine, but that's a separate topic. We don't need a separate article about DNS virtual hosting since DNS is almost always "virtually" hosted. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-13 20:52Z

[edit] http_proxy

Here, "A workaround in this case is to add the IP address and hostname to the client system's hosts file", mention if one could merely set $http_proxy instead of messing with hosts file.