I'm using name based virtual hosts as I only have one IP. And I don'tsee how a router would work, you'd need a router that could pick out the domain name out of the request in teh same way a virtual host can, and forward it to a different local machine. I don't think there is a program like that. Unless Apache has something like that built in. I don't know about that rewrite thing either, does anyone else know about that? Oh you know what I just thought of,i could use mod rewrite probably to forward a domain name domain.com to domain.com:81 and jus tmap port 81 to my other machine, I bet that would work, and it wouldn't require much work from the main server.