Name based is the virtual hosting that allows the virtual hosts to serve multiple hostnames that runs on single machine and having only one IP address.
- This is used when the web browser is used to request the resource from the server then the server respond using the hostname.
- Web server uses HTTP protocol to respond to the requested hostname as the part of the request.
- The server contains all the information of the website and the user that requests for the resources given.
- Name based web hosting includes the resources and services that need to be given at the time of client’s request.