On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 07:11:57PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
 
> The issue is that in a multi hosting environment, port 443 is managed by
> the system and a hosted  Web service can only bind to a specific
> port/hostname combination as a result. The hosted service gets a *share* of
> port 443 while on any other port it gets the raw TCP/IP stream.

This sounds theoretically for a VPS provider, though the host would
need a way to figure out what ports all the guest VMs were listening on.

Do we know of any specific hosting environments that operate this way?

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