There's something called Server Name Indication that allows name-based virtual hosting with https. There's some good information here about it: http://wiki.apac

There's something called Server Name Indication that allows name-based virtual hosting with https. There's some good information here about it: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI The problem is browser support isn't quite where it needs to be, with IE only supporting it in 7.0+ on Vista or later (IE 6 or IE anything running on Windows XP is out of luck).