What is a “Private Virtual Web Server”?
The Vex.Net Private Virtual Web Server service is a means by which the host of a virtual domain web site can keep confidential files and data more secure than was before possible. This service is free to Vex.Net subscribers who have Virtual Host/Domain accounts. A normal web server, in order to deliver web pages for everyone on the host system, runs as a user named “nobody”. This is why you must make the files and data on your web site “world readable”, so that “nobody” (that is to say, everybody) can read them. The Private Virtual Web Server is a means by which you can, for your domain, run a web server process under your own login ID instead of as “nobody”. The benefit of running a web server under your login ID is that it means that the web server can access files and data which have permissions set so as to be accessible only by you, and by no one else on the system; they no longer need to be “world readable” in order to be accessed and sent out by the web server. All your web page
