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How does shared hosting work?

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Mar 15, 20263661 views
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Ive always wonder how its possible to host many websites on one server. For example dreamhost can have 100+ pages hosted on one server, how is this abstracted? Does it have 1 ip for every webpage hosted?

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From the Wikipedia article on Shared Web Hosting: Name-based In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address. When a web browser requests a resourc…

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