What is virtual web server?
A virtual web server is just look like a real computer with its host name and domain name, and installed a web server (software) to form a real web server that has a full time Internet presence. • Why use a web server rather than personal home page? If you have a web server, you will have an URL address like: http://www.company.com/ and your email address is anything@company.com If you have a homepage account, you will have a homepage address like: http://www.tbd.net/~yourname and your email address is company@tbd.net Here are the major differences: • A web server address http://www.company.com/ can give you a professional and corporate image for your web site. On the Internet, there is no much differences between your web server and a famous company web server such as: http://home.netscape.com/. • Your web server address can technically give you any email address your like such as “webmaster”. But a home page account cannot. For example, a web server can have the followings: • http://
