Virtual Web Hosting
The process of running multiple “virtual” web servers on a single physical host computer is called virtual web hosting. Virtual web hosting allows you to host multiple domains on the same server. In Virtual web hosting, one just have to pay off the rent for space on server and get all the benefits of it. Various virtual web hosting providers recommend packages with special combinations of domain names allowed with each hosting account, disk space plus bandwidth allocations.
Virtual web hosting is also recognized as “shared web hosting” as it permits you to share features of the server with other domains. On the whole there are two kinds of virtual web hosting. One is IP-based and the other one is name-based. In name-based hosting, a single IP-address is used to host each website whereas in IP-based, each website is given its own IP-address. Name-based virtual web hosting is possible for the websites that do not have any specific security requirements.
In virtual web hosting, the loading time of a webpage depends on the other websites sharing that server. That is why it is mostly preferred for a small low traffic website. Each web site has its personal OS on the “virtual” hosting server with a remote segment of disk space.
Virtual web hosting is reasonably low-priced as compared to dedicated server hosting. virtual web hosting is ideal for the low and small sized websites.
