What
is web hosting?
What is managed web hosting?
What is shared web hosting?
What is a domain name?
What is a domain name registrar?
What is SSL?
What is a mail server?
What is POP3?
What is MySQL?
What
is PHP?
What is web hosting?
Web hosting is the placement of a website
on the internet for viewing. Web hosting can be any kind of
placement, but the preferred method for businesses is commercial
web hosting, where one utilizes a domain name of their own
(i.e. something.com) to be easily found. Many small businesses
have used alternate web hosting in the past (i.e. http://www.somedomain.com/businessname/),
however, the costs associated with purchasing commercial-class
web hosting and enterprise web hosting have decreased dramatically
Larger companies and corporations often have their own in-house
web hosting, run by the IT staff, however most businesses
have little need for this measure, as the price of shared
web hosting (as well as its reliability) reveals a dramatic
contrast between the relatively expensive in-house web hosting
and utilizing a web hosting provider...
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What is managed web hosting?
Often, your hosted site will be packed onto
a server that has already been filled past capacity, and you
will receive very little (if any) support for your websites.
Managed hosting is a state in which your site is placed on
a web server that has been limited to far fewer sites, and
is watched to ensure that abusive users are dealt with in
proper fashion...
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What is shared web hosting?
Shared web hosting is the act of having
many web sites on one machine, with independent domain names
for each web site. Shared web hosting has driven the costs
associated with web hosting down to a level that the average
startup, the average individual, the average small business
can afford to utilize web hosting services with little or
no economic encumbrance. In previous years, bandwidth was
expensive, and many were pushed into purchasing their own
server rackspace for astronomical rates (often exceeding $3,000
at a time), as well as the relatively expensive charges for
a domain name from Network Solutions, to have their web site
hosted on the Internet -- thus, alternate web hosting was
used frequently as an affordable alternative. Thankfully,
through shared web hosting, the cost for placing a website
on the Internet has become far less than in previous days.
Larger servers with astronomical amounts of RAM, multiple
processors, and large hard disks for the same price as personal
computers were 10 years ago have made it feasible for web
hosting costs to drop significantly, and more web sites can
be hosted in one location...
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What is a domain name?
A domain name is a name which points to
a computer on the Internet, or a large group of computers
on the Internet. One consists of the top level domain (i.e.
.com, .net, .org, .info, etc...) and the primary domain (i.e.
1FastHost.com's primary domain name is 1FastHost). A domain
name is a necessity for commercial-class web hosting, and
makes it easier for someone to find your company on the internet.
These days, since Network Solutions has had its monopoly on
domain names dissolved, you can purchase domain names for
relatively low prices on a one-time payment per year. Individuals
are purchasing their own domain names and web hosting to display
private sites on the Internet...
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What is a domain name registrar?
A domain name registrar is an entity through
which you may purchase a domain name. Such include 1FastHost
Web Hosting, Register.com, and Version/NSI...
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What is SSL?
SSL is Secure Sockets Layer, which is an
encryption transport method. If you wish to have a web site
that requests personal information such as credit cards, social
security numbers, or even full names and addresses, then you
will need to have a web hosting provider with SSL. To use
SSL effectively, you must have an SSL certificate...
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What is a mail server?
A mail server takes information which you
send to someone and relays it to its location. Also, a mail
server stores incoming information in either specific files
or directories (or even databases) for someone to access with
an email client. In web hosting, mail is allocated virtually,
allowing Joe Klein on example.com to have joe@example.com,
and Joe Harris on example2.com to have joe@example2.com on
the same mail server...
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What is POP3?
POP3 is Post Office Protocol version 3.
This is the normal mail server for mail client readers in
web hosting. While extraordinarily reliable, the default is
to send everything in plain text rather than encrypted, so
your information can potentially be read in transit . Many
(if not most) web hosting companies have this option as well
as POP3-SSL, which encrypts the information in transit.For
more technical information you may wish to browse through
RFC1939 for details...
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What is MySQL?
MYSQL is a SQL server which is available
from MYSQL AB (their home page). It is known for its web-friendliness
and power, and low resource usage, as well as speed. Very,
very popular among web hosting companies and users alike...
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What
is PHP?
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Processor,
which was developed by Zend. Powerful and flexible, PHP is
the choice of many web hosting companies for many types of
programming tasks executed on the server side...
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