Virtual Hosting from Vodacom Business

Virtual Hosting is the future of website and online application hosting. It is a shared hosting solution which reduces server sprawl and provides an outstanding energy-efficient shared hosting system. Rather than dedicate a physical server for your web hosting needs, multiple websites can be hosted on a single server, each with its own software platform, data storage, technology components and security features.

How does Virtual Hosting work?

The traditional way of hosting has been to run no more than a few (and often only one) website or online application on a single server. When new websites or online applications are added to the company network, or more computing power is needed, new servers are added.

With virtual web hosting, a single physical server can run dozens of virtual hosting servers, each with its own unique configuration and operating system. This presents a massive resource saving, and provides a manifold increase in the efficiency of each physical server – saving energy and money. Using the virtual hosting model, you’ll gain up to an 80% increase in server utilisation.

It almost goes without saying that this more efficient use of energy has a significant ecological impact as well.

Virtual Hosting saves you money

Shared hosting becomes vastly scalable with virtual web hosting technology. Vodacom Business can provide your company with a shared hosting solution that is less resource and energy intensive, and that doesn’t require expensive hardware and is flexible – all at a fraction of the cost of creating a similar physical server environment.