Hello,

I read at several hosting providers that they have "single hommed" and "multi hommed" What does this "hommed" mean? What does it refer to? Also, does UUNET and C&W have anything to do with it? Thanks for all your help.

"homed" would be the proper term

single-homed means that only 1 bandwidth provider is serving the datacenter. multi-homed means there are at least 2 providers


if there is only 1 provider and that provider has network issues, the datacnter is inaccessible. However if there are multiple providers, there exists redundancy, and therefore your site should still be accessible.

I always thought a network with just two connections is referred to as "dual-homed" and a true "multi-homed" network is connected to more than two places.

I'd have to agree with that, but there are too many hosts advertising otherwise making it a bit confusing to a newbie :rolleyes:

Can there be multiple lines in a single "homed" network? Thanks

Originally posted by akash
I'd have to agree with that, but there are too many hosts advertising otherwise making it a bit confusing to a newbie :rolleyes:
Very, very, true :)

Originally posted by intigret
Can there be multiple lines in a single "homed" network? Thanks

No, because then it wouldn't be a single-homed network. A single-homed network has *ONLY* 1 line from 1 provider. Multi-homed is where you have more than 1 line going in to the same datacenter, causing redundancy.

I thought it was the number of providers. Single homed you could have as many lines as you wanted from one provider still makign it single homed. To make it mulit homed you need another line, from another company, so just incase the first company has a power failure, the second company is there to back you up. Is this correct? Thanks