A domain that shares an IP number with its official domain, and possibly with other virtual hosts It is a hostname bound to the IP number but subservient to the main host
One of several host names that you can define for a single IP address in the domain name server That IP address can then serve multiple files, rather than requiring different IP addresses for different files
Refers to the practice of maintaining more than one server on one machine, differentiated by their apparent host name
A provider of Web services that offer server functions and internet connection services
A computer which can be forced to respond to multiple IP addresses and provide various services (typically different Web services) on each Each of these IP addresess (which usually each have their own hostname) operate as if they were separate hosts on separate machines, although they are really all the same host Therefore, they are called "virtual" hosts An example of virtual hosting is when an Internet Service Provider "hosts" World-Wide Web and other services for several customers on the same computer but gives the appearence that each of these services use separate servers
Also called an IPP In order to establish a full-time presence on the internet, one needs to have computers that are connected continuously to the Internet Special hardware and software are needed as well as constant maintenance of a full-time high speed connection to the internet A virtual host provides services to relieve its hosted customers from the burden of dedicating costly hardware/software and valuable human resources to its web presence effort Because the electronic frontage (or website) actually resides on the IPP's computers, and not that of the entity, it's virtual This is where the name "virtual host" comes from top
An additional IP address on a machine Giving a machine more than one IP address allows that machine to simultaneously host multiple web sites along with their DNS domains While it is possible to host multiple Web sites without virtual hosting, it is not possible to access each of the sites with a URL of the form "http: //www domain com" without virtual hosting In the absence of virtual hosting, a URL like "http: //www domain com/domain" would be required
This context means that the directive may appear inside <VirtualHost> containers in the server configuration files