Virtual Hosts with EasyPHP Primer Tutorial
Just supposing you run one web server, and want to handle more than one domain name, with control over the handling of each name (today we end up with a url of “quiz” which means something!). This is the concept of Virtual Hosting.
As you can imagine the price of such shared web hosting might be lower, and so it normally pans out. A case in point, for this blog, is its web hosting at Crazy Domains where rjmprogramming.com.au hosting started with such a Virtual Hosting arrangement, grew, and now is hosted on a Dedicated Virtual Hosting Web Server with Crazy Domains.
The EasyPHP web server product for Windows installs a WAMP framework environment for an Apache/PHP/MySql web server arrangement. EasyPHP’s DevServer product also allows for the download and install of a Virtual Hosting module, which we install and play with today, though in real practice you’d want it to do more dazzling things than we ask it to do … today we are just giving you food for thought and you may see great uses for this functionality if you are hosting webpages and applications now, or into the future.
Web hosting is a big topic, Virtual Hosting being one of the many maintenance tasks involved. Think also A records and MX records as two more examples of maintenance issues that in large hosting organizations can employ the services of one or more staff permanently, or as part of a dedicated help desk team.
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