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Web Hosting Tips and Advice Center Topic: Web Hosting Terminology See the subtopics menu for information about common web hosting terminology. For additional information about web hosting, see the topic list directly below.
 Domain Names and Their ImportanceWhat is a domain name? A domain name is the name of a website that you type into a browser, such as www.ewisdom.com. This alpha-numeric name is translated into a series of numbers called an IP (Internet protocol) address, such as 123.456.789.012, which tells your computer's Internet browser where to find the requested website. The domain name is important because without it, people would have to remember the IP address for each site they wanted to visit. ^ Back to top Registration of a WebsiteWhy do I have to register a website's name? Website names, such as www.ewisdom.com, are not what is used by computers to locate a website. The name that you type in when you visit a website is translated into a series of numbers which is the real location of the website. The computer then uses that series of numbers to locate the server that the website is on and display it to you. In order for someone to broadcast a website to the world, both the series of number that identifies the site has to be chosen, and a name has to be assigned to those numbers, so that when people type in the name of the site, they are directed to the correct one. ^ Back to top Subdomains ExplainedWhat is a subdomain, and how do I create one? A sub-domain is a website that is part of a larger website. For example, a sub-domain of the site www.e-wisdom.com might be blog.e-wisdom.com, where the sub-domain is the blog section. A sub-domain can usually be easily created on a website, as most web hosting companies have options for creating them from the control panel of the site. You may also be abl create them manually if you have the technical expertise and the hosting company supports that fuctionality. ^ Back to top Web Hosting Control Panels ExplainedWhat are web hosting control panels? Control panels are user-friendly interfaces where website owners are able to control all of the bits and pieces of their websites, view statistics on their websites, and see any reports of outages or downtimes. Control panels are extremely important to inexperienced and expert webmasters alike. That said, you should make sure that a web host has a good control panel before signing up with them. Without a control panel, accessing the components of a website can become extremely difficult. All in all, control panels make life much easier for website owners. The existence and quality of control panels should be a major factor when choosing a web host. ^ Back to top About Web PagesWhat is a web page? A web page is a specially formatted document that is created so that Internet browsers can read it, interpret it, and display it in a readable format for you to see. Web pages live on web servers, and these servers pass the web pages to the Internet browsers of users, which then display them. Web pages can be very simple or very complex, but they all have similarities in the language that they are created in. The language of a web page is HTML: HyperText Markup Language, and this is the language which Internet browsers read and then translate into what you see on the screen. HTML is the simplest of web page languages, and every web page you see has some snippet of HTML in it. There are other languages that can make up web pages, like XML, PHP, and CSS, but HTML is the underpinning for the whole existence of web pages. Websites are made up of one or more (usually much more) than one web page. ^ Back to top About Web ServersWhat is a server? A server is a computer that is built and designed to serve something. In this context, it is designed to serve web pages, and is hence called a web server. A server is connected to the Internet through a high-speed link, and typically has enough memory and hard disk space that it can handle serving web pages to large numbers of people. A server can come in many configurations, and can range from a small box in a person's home designed for hosting a personal website to a large system that is housed in a business's computer room, designed to host a corporate website. ^ Back to top
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