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Virtual Web Site

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:58 am

A Web sitehosted on a server that shares resources with other Web sites, as opposed to a single machine dedicated to processing HTTP requests for a single Web site. Web sites on the same server will share common resources. Also called shared Web hosting.

See virtual host.
Also see “All About Web Site Hosting” in the Did You Know…? section of Webopedia.