Subject: Re: [vserver] Pros and Cons of 32/64bit guests on 64bit host
From: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:51:45 +0800 (CST)

Hi Cedric,


--- Cedric Veilleux <cveilleux@neopeak.com> wrote:

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> So you want to do 'name-based' virtual hosting, where each host is in
> a
> seperate vserver?

Yes, each guest has its own hostname/domain.  On their arrival the
device/router can distribute them to their servers respectively based
on domain NOT on IP


> A reverse http proxy could do that.

I don't have experience on it.  I'll make a search later.  Thanks,


> For exemple Apache using mod_proxy.. Create a virtual host for each
> website, and reverse proxy the requests to the internal vservers
> (using
> their private IP).

How about other servers, not webserver?


> Some hardware load balancers could achieve the same reseult I guess.

Thanks for your advice.  Vyatta is a software project on load
balancers.  I don't have a reply responding my posting on their forum.


B.R.
Stephen L

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