IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Hi all,

there is one big problem i see: If you charge your customers for traffic,
you must count the traffic, and the easiest and most reliable way to do
this is on the firewall/router. Thats the way we do and therefore we need
one IP per customer. Most customers have more than onme site and for that
we are using HTTP 1.1 (NameVirtualHosts).
As long as there is no Package for apache to cout the traffic !reliable!
(the traffic counted via access logs is << real traffic ) I do not see a
way to put all customers to a couple of IPs.

Greetinmgs from Germany

Henning Brauer
Hostmaster BSWS

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                    Sascha Luck                                                                                                 
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Thus spoke Nurani Nimpuno:
> mandatory for NEW installations to use domain based web-hosting, with
> the exception of a set of agreed applications needing IP based
> web-hosting (eg. SSL).

I'd go one step further and make it mandatory to use HTTP 1.1 based
hosting for _upgraded_ installations. I don't know how to enforce that,
however.
Otherwise, I can live with that proposal.

Best regards,

s.

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