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1) What is virtual hosting

Answer 1)Virtual hosting is just hosting many websites on a single server all using the same IP address.

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Answer 2)Virtual hosting is a term that refers to virtualized web hosting plans. Virtualization is a technology that
allows web hosts to split dedicated servers into isolated virtual machines. This greatly improves security
and reliability. A very good virtualization solution is offered by Parallels with their Virtuozzo Containers.
Virtuozzo Containers are completely isolated from each other, meaning an abusive user cannot take down an
entire server. Instead, they'll end up only screwing up their own VPS. Virtual hosting represents a cost
effective way for people to manage their resources.

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Answer 3)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a server using a single IP address.

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Answer 4)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a server using a single IP address.

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Answer 5)Virtual hosting is just like shared hosting. A virtual host essentially in Apache talk is a domain that is
hosted on the same ip address. We call this name based hosting or virtual hosting. Multiple websites exist
on the same ip address. Another method is IP based hosting where a single website even on a shared server is
associated with a singular ip only. You need a dedicated ip address to have SSL certificates for your
website, some web hosts however do offer a shared certificate that gives SSL capabilities to websites in a
shared capacity if they would like it for their sign in pages and other things they need basic protection on.

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Answer 6)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address.

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Answer 7)Virtual Hosting is where multiple domain names - preferably 2 or more hosted on a single computer - an ip
address. Which means if either one of the domain users causes the ip to be blacklisted - both users will also
be blacklisted. Preferable similar to shared hosting where resources are shared between two or more users in a
server.

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Answer 8)Virtual Hosting is a smaller server running on a larger server. For example there is one larger server, with
around 20 smaller servers being virtualized on it. This allows people to have their own server without the
expensive price tag of a full server.

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Answer 9)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This
allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more
efficiently.

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Answer 10)Virtual Hosting, which is better known as VPS for Virtual Private Server, is where you are assigned a certain
amount of resources to run an image of an operating system on a server along with other images. To each image
it looks like its own computer, it can be rebooted or even have the operating system reinstalled. This allows
each person with each image to install there required programs.

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Answer 11)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This
allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more
efficiently.

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Answer 12)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This
allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more
efficiently.

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Answer 13)Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This
allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more
efficiently.

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Answer 14)Virtual hosting (also called shared hosting) is where many clients websites are served from shared servers.
Virtual hosting is the starting point for hosting allowing you to just pay your portion of the costs
associated with a high performance server between other users. In most cases it is simple to progress upwards
to a VPS (virtual private servers), dedicated server and then to multiple servers/racks as your requirements
grow.

Virtual hosting may impose some limits on what configuration options are available. Where this causes
problems you may need to upgrade to a VPS to allow your custom changes to be made without causing problems to
other users on the shared platform.

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Answer 15)Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone.
Virtual hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts
mulitple sites. You are virtually shared - your site will not be the only one on this specific server.
Very few sites would actually need the power of a dedicated server, so this provides to be a reliable and
cheap solution.

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