pro/cons of virtual hosting services

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>   > poole at eunet.ch writes:
>   > > 
>   > > To repeat: The second soloution proposed provides all aspects of
>   > > provider independence.  Why should we waste address space if wasting it
>   > > does not provide significant additional functionality? 
>   > 
>   > Because the customer wants something else (and they pay your wage too
>   > in the end).
> 
> I contest that the majority wants something different from my 
> second soloution.  Please re-read it.

Some do, some don't (up to now we have provided exactlly your solution,
and some customers are completly content with it, others aren't).
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> But you can run a virtual server without wasting address space!
> 
>   > Naturally the correct solution would be for the HTTP protocol to pass
>   > the complete URL to the server, however it's too late for that.
> 
> Which I understand is fixed in the newest spec. 

The problem is that I don't believe anybody that is -serious- about his
server advertizing (for lots of money) http://www.xyz.com/  if it is
not going to work with a -very- high percentage of browsers.

Simon