Jargons in Web World
Let us try to understand the entire web design scenario through a systematic approach. First of all, you must know, that you need a unique identifier in the cyberspace just like your postal address. This is called the Domain Name.
You select a name of your choice, check the availability and book the domain. If somebody has already occupied your desired domain you need to modify it a bit in order to keep it unique keeping the vision/ ideology in tact.
There are several extensions and restrictions, which we shall discuss later. Once you book the domain you need some web space where your web pages will reside and at which the domain name will point to. This is something like staying in a particular place on the earth and communicating with another place for attention. This space in the cyber world is called the Server space.
The obvious question comes up, whether you can host your website in your own Computer. Definitely yes, but can you guarantee a 24×7 uptime of your Computer? Remember your website may be visited by people from any corner of the world as per their convenient time zone.
In reality there are many companies, which allow you to share their hard disk space on a rental basis. Even there are sites like Yahoo Geocities, who provide hosting free of cost. The vendors offer you generally two types of hosting services namely dedicated and shared, which will be explored later. Nevertheless, the business ethics ensure privacy of your files and contents in the hosted server.
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