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| What, Why, How and other details of domain names. |
Hosting a website on the Internet is not really a difficult task. Using our guide almost anyone can setup a website for himself/herself.
A website is served by a computer called as server. A web page is a computer file stored in this server. Most general extension of this file is .html . HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It can have other extensions like .asp, .php etc. A document served from a server to be read by a user's browser should be coded in HTML. If you want to make this page dynamic, you may use web-programming languages such as ASP, PHP, JSP which will generate the HTML code depending on various programming logic used. Internet is the connecting medium between the SERVER and the BROWSER.
Once you have these files ready, You need a web server to place these files. Setting up a web server is a huge topic on its own. We will by pass this topic at this place. We can find on the internet various people who provide web hosting space for you. Either you can buy web space from a good vendor or opt for free services available (usually associated with advertisements in your page in exchange for the free service given).
Now once you have placed these files on a server which is identified by an IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx), one can access these files using this address. But remembering an IP address is a difficult task for a visitor of your site. Hence there exists a system called as Domain names. You need to buy a domain name, and a system called as DNS resolves this name to the IP address. Once you buy a domain name like www.yourname.com and point it to the IP address, your website should be visible to anyone with Internet access to see your website. |
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