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understandable. Unless you deal with this type of thing on a regular basis you
probably don't have the first idea of what some of it means so we will try to define them for
you below: a) DOMAIN NAME: A domain name is
an address used to identify and locate the web pages on the Internet. A domain name
(www.yourname.com) is hierarchical and often conveys information about the type of entity
using the domain name.
b) .COM: The extension ".com" is
distributed by the American Registrar and means "commercial enterprise". If you are
an organization rather than a business, you would have the extension ".org".
c) SEARCH ENGINE: Search Engines index Websites on
the Internet so when you do a search, for example, "Website packages", they search
their huge database for matches. Yahoo!, is the best know search engine.
d) HOSTING: The place your Website resides on our
state-of-the-art web servers and establish a presence on the Internet with your own unique
domain name (www.yourdomainname.com). All of the pages and graphics of your site are
stored on a host.
e) SERVERS: The actual computer that stores your
Website & graphics. When somebody types in your domain name (www.yourdomainname.com)
the Internet knows, from the domain name registration process, to go to the host/server where
your site is stored to get the web pages for display.
f) SPACE: The amount of data that can be
stored in your account. For example, if each picture on your site is 100KB and you have
a 100MB account, you would be able to store 1000 pictures of that size before you ran out of
space.
g) BANDWIDTH: The amount of data that is
transferred from your account to the world wide web when people view your site. When
people go to a site, each page has a combination of text and pictures on it. If the page
itself where 10KB and it had another 100KB of pictures and graphics on it, each time somebody
loaded that page on their browser at home, it would cost you 110KB of bandwidth from your
allotted bandwidth.
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