What do I need to get a site onto the internet?
Answer: Crestone Creations! We provide:
- the way to find it - domain name
- the place - host (sometimes called "server")
- the file(s) - web page
Do you want to understand it? Read on! Do you want us to explain it? Call or email!
1. Domain Name - the way to find it (address / domain name)
Many people / businesses like to have a catchy "domain name" such as "crestonecreations.com" that helps give identity to their business. Domain names are convenient replacements to the underlying reference numbers or "IP" (click here for more definitions). An IP, as defined by the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers, an Internet Protocol Address is the numerical address by which a location in the Internet is identified. Computers on the Internet use IP addresses to route traffic and establish connections among themselves. People generally use the human-friendly names made possible by the Domain Name System and thus instead of using an IP to get to this web site, you used "crestonecreations.com." With our server, we are use a single IP to access the server and then the names are routed to your space on the server, thus conserving a diminishing resource and without any inconvenience nor liability to your site.
Crestone Creations can secure a domain name for you and set it up with the proper information so that your address directs to your host, or you can do this yourself. Simply click here to register!
Contact us for more info! Sign up now!!
2. the place (host)- - To have a site on the internet you need to have a file hosted on an internet connected computer. This page that you are reading right now, explain.html is hosted on an internet connected computer. crestonecreations.com is
in the business of selling space on one of many very large geographically
centered internet-connected computers. We buy this space at
a very good price and pass on the savings to you. We can offer
many very fancy features that come along in addition to this
space including a cornucopia of email features.
3. the file (web page)- the code laden
document that shows up on your computer screen looking like
something pretty thanks to a browser such as Firefox, Safari,
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. The file that you are
currently viewing is named explain.html Crestone
Creations can design these web page files for you to make
up your site - design, photos, information - design your site,
place and optimize your photos, organize your information.
Other terms and concepts explained:
Relate "storage" and "bandwidth" into how my site works?
Storage and bandwith are the two principal criteria used to shop for a host.
Storage - like the hard disk of your computer, this is how much file space you get. An average page is about 50K (this page is about 35K). 50 Megabytes gives you the space to place aprox 50,000 pages such as this one. Let us know if you need more space. Space gets eaten up by large photo files, sound and large .pdf files.
1,000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1,000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)
compare MB with Mb
Bandwidth - relates to activity on your site. A typical hosting package offers 1 Gigabyte of bandwidth per month. That means you could access this page 60,000 times every month and stay below your quota. Need more? You can always get more! We'll let you know if you go over! No worries mate!
hosting (same story, different words) - the kind computer who stores your files and makes them available to users of the internet. Usually you have to pay to put your files onto one of these computers, this is the service that is offered by crestonecreations.com It is the difference between having files and having files available on the internet.
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Other Terms: - in order of "need to know"
internet - that wonderous linking (networking) of computers all around the world.
from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Glossary.html
INTERNET (Upper case I)
The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60’s and early 70’s. An "internet" (lower case i) is any computers connected to each other (a network), and are not part of the Internet unless the use TCP/IP protocols. An "intranet" is a private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. An intranet may be on the Internet or may simply be a network.
Read from the following:
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
domain name - that thing we say to go to that starts with www
of course, now that we're all used to it, most domain names can now be accessed without the www. The domain name is a substitute for the numerical pathway to the place where the files that make up the site are kept. the alternative is to use a static IP. Number instead of name! Obviously, it's much more cool to have a name instead of a number! thus the domain name, crestonecreations.com, replaces the computer number. So you enter the domain name, and the computer searches for information as to where the thing is in number form. To do this it goes to where the domain is parked, gets instructions as to which way to go, and goes there. Often it goes to a computer somewhere, a server, where the files that make up the site are kept.
We offer great prices for domain names through our partnership with register.com. Sign up now, click here !
