Virtual hosting - What is it?

Virtual hosting is where you share the machine that is hosting your website with a number of other sites, but this is not apparent to your website visitors. This allows you to host a website at the fraction of the cost of a dedicated solution. A dedicated hosting solution only becomes necessary if you want to use software or solutions (for example an SQL database) that the shared platform does not support.

In most cases however virtual hosting is the ideal solution for the individual or small business that wants to get a web presence without the expense.

You can also have virtual dedicated hosting or semi-dedicated hosting which is similar to dedicated hosting, but the server is partitioned into several sections and you not only get a folder on a shared server, but the complete partition.

VIRTUAL or SHARED WEB HOSTING PROVIDERS

International Website Hosting.com as a reliable and low cost web host with web hosting at very reasonable prices. There are other very cheap and free options, but you get what you pay for.

Make sure you have read our web hosting guide before signing up!