IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Robert Kiessling wrote:

> Nurani Nimpuno writes:
>  > We would
>  > therefore like to request the community to consider making it
>  > 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).
>
> So you would require servers like www.siemens.de to share an IP
> address with www.my-completely-unimportant-personal-site.de if there
> is no SSL or similar use?


Isn't it a bit unlikely that such a "power-site" would be
sitting on a shared server (as avirtual Web) ?


mh


>
> I would suggest to make exceptions for heavily used sites, too. Since
> the vast mayority of webservers does not fall into this category, this
> is no waste of address space.
>
> Robert

I agree.

bh