A system for creating and operating virtual environments includes an Internet-connected server, and software executing from the server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a first function for providing computational resources for creating and operating the virtual environments upon consumer request, a second function for providing administrative control over the created virtual environments to individual ones of the creators of those virtual environments, and a third function for providing a secure interface for matching individual visitors to the created virtual worlds and granting access thereto according to the administrative policies of those individual virtual worlds born through operation of the second function.