 HOSTING:
A host or host computer is a computer connected to the Internet, or sometimes other computer networks . A host computer can host information as well as client and/or server software. The hosts file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a computer network. This file maps hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is used as a supplement to (or instead of) the domain name system on networks of varying sizes. Unlike DNS, the hosts file is under the control of the local computer's administrator.
The ARPANET (predecessor to the Internet) had no domain name system for giving network nodes their own addresses. Because there was no centralized system for this purpose, each network node contained its own "map" of the network nodes that it needed to know about, and assigned them names that were memorable to the user. There was no method for ensuring that all references to a given node on a network were called by the same name, nor was there a way to read some other user's hosts file to automatically obtain their copy.
The small size of the ARPANET permitted hosts files to be used with some convenience for some time. Network nodes typically had one address, and could have potentially many names. As individual TCP/IP computer networks started becoming popular, however, the hosts file became a large burden on system administrators—networks and network nodes were being added all the time—making maintenance of the hosts file a task which grew significantly. |
DOMAIN NAME:
The most basic functionality of a domain name is to provide a recognizable name that is associated with a websites address, i.e. www.websiteworkshed.com.
If your business is called The Website Workshed, then you would want your "domain name" to reflect the name of your business.
What you need to do is to see if anyone else has registered it for themselves.
This is where you can mix it up a little by trying a few different ways of writing it, for example, if www.thewebsiteworkshed.com has been taken, you may try typing in just websiteworkshed.com (excluding 'the'), or abbreviate it to tww.com, or even webshed.com and so on.
Keep in mind, people can easily mis-spell a name if it is unusual or long. If possible and relevent, try to make it as short as you can to avoid typos, too.
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BROWSERS:
>Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome - these are all different Browsers that are used to find a website address or to search foritems and articles online. Click below to download and install:
 Internet Explorer
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URL: A URL is a text-based address used to identify specific resources on the Internet, such as web pages. URLs are arranged in a hierarchical form that specifies the name of the server on which a resource is located (such as www.2wire.com) and the name of the file on that server (www.2wire.com/index.html).
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