Re: "Virtual host" support?

[George Daflidis-Kotsis <gdk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Alex N. Ibrado wrote:

> True, unless of course the owner of the virtual IRC
> system does not intend it to be part of a public
> network, but rather be known to and/or used by only
> clients, partners, friends, etc. (for ease of
> connection, less lag, etc.)    

Well considering the fact that on a "decent" unix box
the ircd can handle easyly a few thousand connections
(plz correct me if I'm wrong) and also considering the
fact that the bandwidth available is standard (since
the physical host that hosts the multiple virtual hosts
is one),then you can easyly come to the conclusion that
there's no difference  in the ease of connection or the
lag in both cases.

You can also put CNAMEs on the ircd so each client can
user irc.customer1.com,irc.customer2.com so everyone uses
the same network but chances are nobody will be able to
tell that the others are there. ;-)

And what the heck, you can tell them that their ircd is
so good that it's starting to get popular :->

All this is under the condition that your customers won't
ask you to operate their server themselves.

My $0.02...

George Daflidis-Kotsis.


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