[Discuss] one vs many static IP addresses

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

> In the distant past, you needed multiple IP addresses to name based virtual hosting with SSL, but that
> problem was solved by SNI, Server Name Indication.

In the even more distant past you needed multiple IP address to do
name based virtual hosting at all. But we're talking REALLY ancient
history: the days of Netscape 1.0. Name-based virtual hosting became
possible with the adoption of HTTP 1.1 which was officially released
in January 1997, and browsers such as Netscape 2.0 and IE 2.0 had
already started to include its features even before the release of the
standard.