See Also: IP-based Virtual Host Support . While the approach with IP-based virtual hosts works very well, it is not the most elegant solution, because a dedicated IP address is needed for every virtual host and it is hard to implement on some machines. ... The benefits of using the new name-based virtual host support is a practically unlimited number of servers, ease of configuration and use, and requires no additional hardware or software. ... For example: ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld . ...