On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 03:24 +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
> Where is the 'virtual'?
>
> Historically, it may have come from the support of a UID that did not have a
> system login account or access to a shell.
actually, I think the term comes for virtual hosts in Apache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting
the introduction of this feature meant that service providers no longer
needed a separate server for each customer, but could host them on
multiple virtual servers on a single physical box.
the term has since been extended to "user" and "domain".
> Shared resources. Multi-<whatever>. But NOT 'virtual'.
feel free to call your server "multi-domain", but it won't change the
way others talk.
--
Kjetil T.
