On 03/05/2011 09:42 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Ahmed Kamalk...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On 03/05/2011 03:24 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
So if some one has to host 100 million websites and if 10 million asks
then the web hosting company has these 10 million IP
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:12 +0530, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
Very correct.But I see people given root access in these situations
also and other than websites people are given a lot of server access
with dedicated IPs and SSH access so how do they acquire so many
IPs.Are these web hosting companies
Hi,
it may not be the right list for this question so please consider my
apologies for that.The reason I am posting here is I feel the people
on Ubuntu server list are quite knowledgeable and will be able to
answer my question.I have been trying to understand this from quite
some time
Simple. The hosting companies giving out root access have either many
dedicated machines, each with their own public ip or they use
virtualization.
No magic, nothing special. Hosting companies just have that many ips to give
out. For example, I rent rack space at a hosting company for my server,
So if some one has to host 100 million websites and if 10 million asks
then the web hosting company has these 10 million IP addresses?
If yes who gives them so many IP addresses?
I may sound stupid but I read that IPv4 have finished.A long long time
back (approx 10 years back) I had asked one of
On 03/05/2011 03:24 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
So if some one has to host 100 million websites and if 10 million asks
then the web hosting company has these 10 million IP addresses?
Websites are different. Due to Name Virtualhosting you can host
multiple websites (thousands) on a single IP
The IP-adresses are bought from an organisation with a lot of IPs given to
them either by a RIR (Regional Internet Registries, eg. RIPE) or directly by
IANA. The whole thing with no more IP-addresses is that IANA no longer
have any IP-addresses they wish to allocate to the public Internet - there
