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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Hey guys, I am an idiot when it comes to servers, hosting most internet stuff. Can you explain a little what you are talking about please?
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Most hosting companies like 1and1 use BIG servers and a technology known as Name Based Virtual Hosts - the webserver responds with different content depending on what name it is called by. This way, one server with one IP address can serve up multiple different sites.
What stomachmonkey's client needs is guaranteed resources - it would suck for them if someone else on the box ran a script that ate all the server resources, or had some page/site that got really popular all of a sudden and ate all the bandwidth.
Imagine if the server here was shared with a hundred other websites. And one of them was hosting the latest celebrity porn video... with all of the traffic for that video, none of us would be able to post, read the forums, etc.