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What is Virtual Web Hosting?

Virtual web hosting has assumed immense popularity because of the fact that they allow hosting of multiple domain names (with the provision of separate handling facility of each of them) on either a pool of servers or on a single server. With the adoption of this kind of hosting solution, a server shares resources. The resources that get shared are processor cycles and memory. This resource sharing takes place without having the requirement of providing all resources to the same host name. It should be mentioned here that the virtual hosting term is generally used with respect to web servers. However, in practical life the same concept is used for other internet services as well.

Virtual web hosting can be name based, IP based, and port based. These concepts are generally used on large scale in businesses whose main objective is to provide affordable website hosting. One of the most popular examples of virtual web hosting usage is in case of shared servers. Here, virtual hosting technology is used for hosting customer websites on shared servers. Virtual hosting technology is used to merge different servers into a single one. It reduces both administrative overhead as well as management.