What do I need to get a web site onto the internet?
- domain name - the name of your web site
- host - computer where web pages live and are served
- web page - the specially coded files served by the host
Crestone Creations provides all of these services for the benefit of our clients so that all of your services are efficiently and logically presented, managed and configured.
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1. DomainName - the way to find it (domain name)
Without domain names we'd have to use numbers to find the computer where your web site lives!!
Domain names are convenient replacements to the underlying reference numbers or "IPs" (click here for more definitions). An IP is the numerical address by which a location on 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 (DNS) and thus instead of using an IP to get to this web site, you used "crestonecreations.com."
If you don't have a domain name yet, send Crestone Creations the name of your business and some of your choices for a domain name and we will return information about availability and suggestions for your choice. Once you make the final decision, we will register the domain name for you and set it up with the proper information information so that your domain name directs to your host, so that your contact information is current and so that you are protected from spam by using our email address - so we field the spam for you!
2. Host - To have a site on the internet you need to have a file hosted on a computer which is connected to the internet 24/7 and which can handle the bandwidth (traffic) of visitors to your site. The computer must be configured to serve your web pages and manage your email. This page that you are reading right now, explainhosting.html, is hosted on the Crestone Creations server. Crestone Creations manages a large geographically
centered internet connected computer for your hosting. Staffed 24x7x365, our trained and professional Network Operations Center (NOC) staff oversees the security and performance of our hosting facility with state of the art monitoring and surveillance tools.
3. web page files - the coded computer files, served by your host, and interpreted by your browser (browser such as
Firefox, Safari,
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) that we call web pages. The file that you are
currently viewing is named explainhosting.html Crestone
Creations designs these web page files for you. These files are the pages which make
up your site.
Other terms and concepts:
URL: A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the domain name plus the pathway on the host which leads to a specific page. The URL for this page is:
http://crestonecreations.com/support/hosting/explainhosting.html
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. We are now starting accounts with 200 MB, but please let us know if you need more space. Space usually gets eaten up by video and sound files.
1,000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1,000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)
compare MB with Mb - click here
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.
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