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Benefits in NAP Hosting:
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Virtual Host
A "virtual host" has a unique domain name, but the
same ip address as other domain names. For example, www.limopros.com
and www.hiphopstarz.com can have the same ip address 66.165.171.142
and share the same web server.
In this scenario, both www.limopros.com and www.hiphopstarz.com
are registered with the standard domain name service registry
as having the IP address 66.165.171.142. A user types in the
url http://www.limopros.com in their browser. The user's computer
resolves the name www.limopros.com to the IP address 66.165.171.142.
The webserver on the machine that has the IP address 66.165.171.142
receives the request. The server then determines which virtual
host to use by looking at the request URL and getting itthe
from a HTTP header submitted by the browser.
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