Website Hosting 101 - Learning The Basics
As a beginner trying to find the right web host for your website
is often daunting. The jargon used by most web hosts often goes
way over your head. In the Hosting 101 section, BrandBlast has 6
lessons for the beginner who wishes to learn the basics of
finding a web host.
Lesson One: What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is the essentially the placement of your website
onto the Internet through a server. Once your site is on a
server, anyone with Internet access can look at your website -
from anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day. In order to have
your site hosted on the web, you need to have the following
three things:
A Website - a page or set of pages that is located under the
same domain name. brandblast.com is a website (but you knew that
already!) A web page is a computer document written in a
publishing language called HTML. When an Internet user types in
your web address, your web server sends the content of your web
page to that user.
A Domain Name - a unique text-based address used to locate a
specific set of web pages. A domain name is made up of words
and/or numbers plus a TLD (top level domain). The TLD for most
businesses is ".com", such as http://www.brandblast.com/;
non-profit organizations use ".org"; universities and
educational sites use ".edu"; and sites involved with the U.S.
government use ".gov". More TLDs are available, such as .biz,
.pro, .name, .info, etc.
An Account With A Web Hosting Company, or a server of your own
to host your website.