What is the usefulness of having many virtual hosts

[phuti2975]

I understand that you can create more virtual hosts in Apigee, but can someone explain to me in which situation will it be advantageous to have more virtual hosts. I am new to Apigee, so this is confusing to me.

[sidd-harth]

A virtual host lets you host multiple domain names on a server.

Lets says you want to expose your proxy on both HTTP and HTTPS protocol, then you would be creating two virtual hosts.

or

Lets say you want to have different domains for different environments like dev, uat, prod. Here you can make use of multiple virtual hosts like,

http://dev-app.acme.com

http://uat-app.acme.com

https://prod-app.acme.com

https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/fundamentals/virtual-hosts