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Indeed this is exactly what webfaction does!

They get around the port issue by using a nginx frontend that uses the Host to route each request to the correct apache instance each user is running out of their home directory. All these apache instances are bound to higher unprivileged ports.



Imagine a world where you don't need a router! A world where the browser would look up a http/s service record for the host and connect directly to the unprivileged port.




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