Technical reasons for mupltiple domains?

[Lastwebpage]

Hello,
I can't imagine any technical reasons for multiple domains for the same server,
e.g. http://www.jabbim.com/services-start.html

Can someone tell me the secret why many jabber servers do this?
Or is this just for fun, because the users love different JIDs?

I fear this only confuse the users, no more.

Peter

[Jehan]

On the link you mentionned, I don't see any reason indeed. Looks like "just for fun" (of the owners, not the users) maybe.

But in general case, it is the same reason as shared servers (do you say "mutualized" in English?). People can't afford their own dedicated servers (for money issue, or simply management, or else), but they may want to have their own Jabber address. Hence instead of running your own, you could use an existing one where you add your domain, transparently. That's the same that when you want your personal web address and configure a web server to use it with many other, all transparently.

[Lastwebpage]

Thanks for your feedback,
but no, I speak only about different domains for the same physical server.

"...where you add your domain.." yes, this could be reason, thanks for your explanation.

Peter

[spike411]

In Jabbim's case – it originally started as two servers. First, there was jabber.cz, then njs.netlab.cz. After few years, jabber.cz admins were not interested in it anymore, so they arranged merge with njs.netlab.cz.

Then, Netlab admin (pinky) wanted a better name, brand if you may. So he renamed his service to “Jabbim” and jabbim.cz, jabbim.sk, jabbim.com and jabbim.pl domains were added for users to choose from (and more domains are planned for “national” users).

[Nicholas Jordan]

(...snip...)(do you say "mutualized" in English?).(...snip...)

No, explaination as you have it is normal, converstational and understandable. Mutualized may be used occasionally in obscure techincal jargon, normally iso laitin-1 street english would be to launch into an explaination just like you have it.