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3. Configuring Virtual Hosts

Darren James Harkness1  
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Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada
 

Ah, the wonders of modern technology.

In the early days of the web, it wasn’t very common for people to have their own domain names. Hosting was hard to come by, and when you could find it, it was anywhere from $50 to $300 a month, plus up to $75 a year for the domain name itself. I recall one ISP in my hometown was selling a luxury hosting package that included 300 kilobytes of storage and 150 megabytes of traffic for $100 a month. A far cry from the discount hosting of today!

As a result, most websites ...

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