Hello all,

I have about 50 questions about VHosting.

Name Vs IP based Virtual hosting.


1) The Apache documentation does not make it clear
which is better - Name based VHosting or IP Based
VHosting.

Which is better and why?


2) I was told the following:
 
"I'm handling some 300+ domains right now...
IP based is nice, if you can afford the IP's, and
the boxes.
After 50 or so, the machine starts becoming more
taxed by the load of the configuration, by having
to handle that many different configurations for
the NIC. It depends on the machine's networking.
If you have a few hundred domains, suddenly your
IP based hosting becomes much more of a pain,
just to manage all of those IP's and NIC settings
and
apache.conf entries. Name based means that you
have one less
item to worry about."

I don't understand this 50 IP VHosts per box
ratio.  If this were the case it seems mIcrosOft
would have made this a big issue.  I've never
heard of this limitation.  

Is this true or is his configuration wrong causing
resource problems?


3) I understand that IP is better because the
search
engines will index the site more freely.  Is this
true?


Thank you very much for reading and answering my
questions.

Keith