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<\/span><\/p>\nIf that\u2019s the case for you \u2013 there\u2019s no need for concern!<\/p>\n
You have come to right place.<\/p>\n
According Wikipedia<\/a>\u200b<\/strong>, web hosting is defined as:<\/p>\n “A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Their definition is solid, in my opinion, but could explain easily.<\/p>\n Are you ready to dive in?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n Basically, a website is a collection of documents known as web pages. Each web page represents a certain topic or product details.<\/p>\n A web page may contain information, images, audio, video and others.<\/p>\n Having a website is a really cool to express yourself, share and learn new stuff in this information age. What do you think?<\/p>\n I highly recommend you to create a website just for you or your business.<\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n You can build a website for any purpose. A website can be used for providing personal information, a blog, a business website, a government website, an eCommerce website or even non-profit websites like http:\/\/wikipedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n If you are running a business website it may have different pages like home, services, products and business contacts.<\/p>\n There are two broad categories of websites. Static websites and dynamic websites.<\/p>\n Static websites usually display same information to all visitors. The main technologies behind building static websites are HTML, CSS, and images. Mostly, these websites are non-interactive.<\/p>\n Static websites usually maintain same information, consistently over the period of time.<\/p>\n Want to know oldest unchanged pages since 1994?<\/p>\n Here you go! Unchanged from 1994!! Really static content.<\/p>\n http:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.warnerbros.com\/archive\/spacejam\/movie\/jam.htm<\/a><\/p>\n But, we highly recommend you to build websites with dynamic content.<\/p>\n Google.co.in, Microsoft.com<\/a>, facebook.com<\/a>, twitter.com<\/a>, and Amazon.in are dynamic or interactive websites. The data on these websites updated all the time.<\/p>\n Dynamic or interactive websites uses Content Management Systems ( CMS) to build websites.<\/p>\n Most popular content management systems are WordPress.org, Joomla.com<\/a>, Drupal.com<\/a> and etc.,<\/p>\n Find list of content management systems from https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_content_management_systems<\/a><\/p>\n Essentially, your website pages are stored on a web server.<\/p>\n Web servers are managed by web hosting companies like FastWebHost<\/a><\/p>\n Now, your web pages are ready to publish on web servers so that anyone can see your business or personal website from anywhere and at any time.<\/p>\n Whenever you access any website or pages from your browser, the request goes to the location where your website hosted, then downloads the copies of pages to your browser.<\/p>\n The process of selecting web hosting provider and publishing\/hosting a website on servers is called a website hosting service.<\/p>\n Simply, domain names are invented to simplify information access on the Internet.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see how that works.<\/p>\n Assume, you assigned a number (IP Address) to every computer or internet device on the planet, how do you remember each device number and access that computer?<\/p>\n It\u2019s impossible to remember millions of numbers (IP Address) for human beings, Isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n That\u2019s where domain names fit in. You select and assign a unique name to each device through Domain Naming System ( DNS) and map domain names to numbers ( IP addresses ).<\/p>\n I\u2019ll explain technical details of domain names in another article.<\/p>\n Now, you need to get unique domain names to your website. You can register domain names like mydomain.com<\/a>, myhobbies.net or mybusiness.net.<\/p>\n Domain names are organised into different extensions depends on type of business you run.<\/p>\n Most common domain extensions are .COM, .NET, .ORG, .GOV, .EDU and country level extensions like .in, .co.uk and com.au.<\/p>\n The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) <\/a>manages domain names and different extensions.<\/p>\n There are different types hosting services provided by web hosting companies all over the world.<\/p>\n I have created a mind map using a free tool bubbl.us<\/a> , take a look at this picture for an overview.<\/p>\n So, let\u2019s take a look at above web hosting categories.<\/p>\nHere are the key concepts you will learn in this guide.<\/h4>\n
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What is a website?<\/h4>\n
What is the purpose of a website?<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nTypes of websites?<\/h4>\n
Static websites:<\/h5>\n
Dynamic websites:<\/h5>\n
What is Web Hosting?<\/h4>\n
What is a domain name?<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nTypes of web hosting<\/h4>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nShared Web Hosting<\/span><\/h5>\n
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