Summary: IP assignment for virtual webhosting

-from the http side of view, it's ok to use name based vhosts

-problem: accounting
There is no software package to do an !reliable! accounting on a name-based
basis, Accounting per IP works fine
Possible solution is a sniffer. this requires an extra machine (and perhaps
a second machine more for analyzing the collected data) and perhaps changes
in the network layout. There is no software package to do this.

-problem: bandwidth management
Bandwidth management on an ip + service based  environment is possible and
not tooooo complicated. For the http part, there are some packages for
apache, but they have not all features needed and you cannot manage badwith
for other services than http.

-problem: moving vhosts
DNS is not fast enough, the possible solution with a redirect to a new
www2-host doesnt work in all cases.

So i think it is not possible to use only one ip per machine and doing only
name based hosting.
I think our way with one IP per customer (NOT per vhost) is an acceptable
compromise.

I won't be at the RIPE-Meeting. Could someone please point out a summary of
our discussion?

Greetings from Germany

Henning Brauer
Hostmaster BSWS

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