Originally posted by: Maezr
These were in reference to IRC, not webhosting... I think, anyway. They said FTP dump access was provided to 'shell providors'. Hm, thanks, though
vhosts are similar to virtual domains. A machine is given multiple ip addresses and multiple fully qualified domain names (one per ip or so). You setup BitchX or whatever client you want to use (irssi, epic, ircii, bnc, etc) to use a specific vhost.
For example, a shell servers has 4 domain names:
eleet.myshellserver.com
llama.myshellserver.com
i.dont.know.how.to.use.google.myshellserver.com
i.need.a.life.other.than.the.one.i.have.on.myshellservers.com
For BitchX, you use something like:
export IRC_HOST=llama.myshellserver.com
From then on, when you connect to an irc server you get that host. hostmask example:
n0c@llama.myshellserver.com
As far as shells, its a command interpriter. Some shells are guis (the gui shell on DOS for Win3.x-Win9x, lightstep or whatever, etc). Most are command line. Unix and Unix-like systems use them. I use the Korn Shell (ksh), but most people seem to use BASH. The other major shell is the C Shell (csh). google.com is your friend.