Virtual hosting is what most personal and small websites use for hosting. Instead of having a dedicated IP and machine where only your website lives, your site is hosted on a server with a bunch of other websites. In fact, most hosting today is on a virtual host. In most cases, this won't matter at all, but if another client on your (virtual) hosting provider does something to take down the whole machine it will take down every other virtual server with it. Luckily this doesn't happen a lot.

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Poll: Do you know what a virtual host is? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 04:19:08.

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