Re: FN-FORUM: what is an IP?

date posted 10th June 2005 14:49

On Friday 10 Jun 2005 2:36 pm, Julie wrote:

> It stands for Internet Protocol and basically means you can have 5 web
> addresses, for instance I have www.visual-communication.co.uk
> www.hosting-zone.co.uk www.drake-art.co.uk, if I so wish they could all
> point to a single web address or you could have unique work on each one=
=2E

I like Richard's answer, but anyway...

An IP address is a numerical identifier for a particular machine. =20
E.g. 18.181.0.31. More than one website can sit on the same=20
IP address, and this is what you would normally do.

A machine can have more than one IP address. This is useful when=20
you have a secure site (https://). As communication with a secure
site is encrypted, the server cannot tell which website the resuet is=20
for, unless the website is on a unique IP address.

There's other things you might do with a "spare" IP address.

To the OP: put all your sites on the "first" IP and save the others
for later.