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LEVELS OF WEB HOSTING SERVICE - VIRTUAL DEDICATED WEB HOSTING
Several web sites are still physically placed on a single computer server, but the number of such sites is lower and each one is given a dedicated "copy" of the operating system (e.g. Linux), along with a guaranteed portion of computer resources (disk, memory, etc), a separate copy of web server software (e.g. Apache), in addition to direct "root-level" access to the server itself. In fact, to the web site administrator it's all but indistinguishable from the "dedicated" solution (see below), even though the physical computer is still shared. This arrangement allows for a much higher level of customization: since you have full access to the server, you can install additional software (such as database servers) on your virtual "machine", reconfigure the web hosting software, etc etc.
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