apache virtual host problem

[Derek Broughton]

Kim Briggs wrote:

> Yes, if you are using the latest Ubuntu with apache2, you should
> definitely be using "sites-enabled", but normally you put the files in
> "sites-available" and then turn them on and off with soft-links.  Here
> is a complete "how-to" for a development machine:

I just don't get that.  Most of us don't turn sites "on and off".  We create
them, and use them for years.  So I put my files directly in
sites-enabled/.  Is there _really_ and advantage to the symlink method for
anyone but a datacentre?
-- 
derek