Website Hosting: How To Choose The One That's Right For You
Website hosting is a process that is very straightforward, but for first time site builders it can be a puzzling procedure. If you know a few basic things, though, it can be quite simple to get your website up and running online.
The basic step is to know what the IP location is. Ordinarily, PCs are hooked up at once in the same place that we refer to as LAN which stands for Local Area Network. WAN(Wide Area Network) connects multitude of LANs. To put it simply, widespread and numerous set of connections of WANs is the Internet.
As is the case with every network, all the things on the Internet should have its own exclusive identity. This is accomplished with the help of IP addresses. An IP address consists of 4 sets of numbers, each one from 1 to 255, separated by periods. For example 210.204.156.183 is an IP address. This system offers us around 4.2 billion distinctive identities.
Website hosting companies possess their own range of IP addresses. When you register with one of these companies to host your website, you will obtain an exclusive IP address from within that range. The IP address that will be given to you matches your individual public hosting area, which is called your domain.
In such a scenario when someone comes into your IP address, they will land straight at your domain. For example, if your IP address is 210.204.156.183 and if you type this number into your browser's address bar, then you will enter into this web site.
When you are trying to cut expenses by using budget companies for your website hosting they will typically designate one IP address for many customers. Unfortunately, this lumps you all in the same category for spam filters and black lists. What that means is that your website, while not being guilty of any offense, will be blacklisted or blocked along with the offending party's website. In order to avoid this scenario while web hosting, make sure that your hosting provider gives you your own IP address and that it will not be duplicated or shared with anyone else.
Though not difficult, website hosting requires some basic knowledge. Understanding how the IP addresses work is an important first step any website builder should undertake. Four sets of concatenated numbers (separated by periods) ranging from 1-255 make it possible to have a total of 4.2 billion distinct web addresses, each of which, when typed into a browser's address area, points to a unique domain (an individual web hosting area). Multiple customers sharing a single IP address is a popular method of cutting website expenses. However, because spam filters and blacklists target offenders via IP addresses, it is better to insist on your own unique IP address from the hosting provider.
Published June 3rd, 2008
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