> My experience with hosting in the boom consisted of mostly first ip-based, then name-based vhosted Apache, maybe a per-vhost, but often per-system cgi-bin, an

> My experience with hosting in the boom consisted of mostly first ip-based, then name-based vhosted Apache, maybe a per-vhost, but often per-system cgi-bin, and if you're lucky, mod_php. At the core of it this is not so different. > So yeah. This is a slightly different model. No, not really. What's changed is our understanding of how to run this kind of infrastructure. And we now have a little bit more sophistication in how we organize process runtime environments (sandboxes, cgroups on Linux, jails on FreeBSD). But if you tear down all the PR and get past the nice decoration it boils down to a glorified shell access. Back in the boom it sucked because nobody knew then, how to do these things properly.