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Ouch! For virtual computer illiterates as me ..

1. Cloud web hosting ..

Up-and-Coming Cloud-Hosting Providers

Cloud hosting is the practice of running Web applications in a "cloud" — a collection of external, virtual servers that are interconnected, either on a corporate network or via the public Internet. The idea behind cloud hosting is to give customers a resource that is highly scalable, reliable and available, with little or no regard to the system's underlying technology or physical location.

Here's a look at five cloud-hosting providers and what they offer potential customers.

2. Definitions of virtual server on the Web:

* An account on a web hosting server, usually linked to its own domain. This provides an inexpensive way to run a web site with its own top level domain, and is usually indistinguishable from having a separate physical server, except that the virtual server may share an IP address with other ...
www.100best-web-hosting.com/glossary/termv.html

* A Virtual Server is fully functioning Web Server that resides within the same physical location of a true Web Server. Multiple Virtual Servers can reside on a single Web Server. ...
www.laynetworks.com/glossary/v.htm

* This is a web server that often hosts thousands of websites simultaneously. The price of virtual hosting can be as low as a couple of pounds per month.
www.cus.net/broadband/content/glossary.html

* A virtual server is a web server which shares its resources with multiple users. It's another way of saying that multiple web sites share the resources of one server.
www.rackspace.co.uk/rackspace-home/media-centre/resource-centre/glossary/

* A virtual computer that resides on an HTTP server but appears to the user as a separate HTTP server. Several virtual servers can reside on one computer, each capable of running its own programs and each with individualized access to input and peripheral devices. ...
www.spxp.org/sharepoint-dictionary/