On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 multics@ruserved.com wrote:
Name-based virtual hosting does not work in many, MANY cases. Beyond this, if you have multiple customers on a single IP address and one of them is an idiot and spamvertizes their website, several providers have a policy of nullrouting the /32. Now, not only does it kill a single site but, potentially hundreds!
--- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc
That might be an advantage in fighting spam. Think of the potential lawsuits against the hosting company and the spammer for loss of business from the spam block. The hosting company should not have accepted a spammer or as soon as they are known to be a spammer, they must take action to prevent loss of business to the non-spammer customers ;)
You've obviously not been in this situation before. Just how are you to know what a customer is going to do prior to turning them on? Do you have access to mindreaders? Do you submit your customers to a polygraph prior to enabling their port? I am fairly certain that the number of hosts that will accept a customer who says "I want your middle grade package and, oh, by the way, I'm going to be SPAMMING the planet to promote my site!" is very limited. The potential lawsuits against the hosting company for loss of business are just more reason to use an individual IP per domain. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc