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Hi

I've installed Drupal mainly for its multisite support. I must develop a project where I'll need to administer up to 40 sites using one drupal installation

For temporarily testing, I've configured an Ubuntu 11.10 server with lamp/webmin.

My problem is that every drupal multisite tutorial talks about apache virtualhosts with domains, but I can't use this stuff in this LAN (as far i know).

My PC and the server are behind a proxy, and both have static local IPs.

Drupal is located at http://10.x.x.150/drupal

We're working on implementing multiple methods for improving performance on a Drupal 5 platform and I noticed that various user hooks are called repeatedly on each page request. I realized that neither Drupal 5 nor Drupal 6 implement a static caching mechanism for storing complete user objects as they do for storing complete node objects.

I'm sure there is a good reason for this, but I'm having trouble fully understanding why. Can someone help explain to me why this is not done?

Thanks,