Re: [cobalt-users] IP vs Name Based Hosting

[Balazs Nagy <bn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been watching the discussions recently regarding IP and IPless hosting.
> While I think name based hosting is nice, I don't like the idea that I
> cannot access my sites by their IPs if something happens to my DNS records.
> Plus it give our clients immediate access to their sites even if the DNS
> records haven't propagated yet.

You actually dont need that on a Cobalt: If you give your client the IP under
which the site is hosted, the http://.../siteamin will put them to the right
spot to start setting up the site, as well as ftp, telnet, ssh and so on. 3h
later the DNS should have anyway propagated.