Installing and Configuring Websites
As mentioned earlier, IIS can support thousands of websites on a single web server. The number of websites that you can reasonably support depends on the way the system is configured, including the number of processors, the amount of RAM, bandwidth, and more. Historically, for every website that the system supports for the Internet, there must be a public IP address and registered domain name. With IIS 8, as with recent versions of the platform, if you have only one public IP address and you want to support multiple websites, you can also create virtual directories or leverage host headers to have those sites serving users on the Internet.
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