Here are a few definitions to help you decide what you may need for your web site and hosting needs:
What is Disk Space?
Disk Space - the total physical
amount of hard drive space a host allows a user to have.
What is a Web Server?
Generally used in reference to the computer hardware that provides World
Wide Web services on the Internet, a Web server includes the hardware, operating system, server software, TCP/IP protocols
and the Web site content. Web server's process requests from Browsers for web pages and serves them up via HTTP.
What is a Domain Name (Domain Name System)?
An addressing construct used for identifying and locating computers on the
Internet. Domain names provide a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses, which can be translated by the Domain Name
System (DNS) into the numeric addresses (Internet Protocol (IP) numbers) used by a network. (Sunshinewebdesign.org is a domain
name as is Google.com)
Domain Name System - a system of mapping names to IP addresses. Because
domain names are alphabetic, they're easier for humans to remember. The Internet, however, is really based on IP addresses.
Every time you use a domain name, DNS translates the name into the corresponding IP address. It is similar to a phonebook
for the Internet.
What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator - the global address of documents and other resources
on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP
address or the domain name where the resource is located; http://www.sunshinewebdesign.org is the URL for Sunshine Web Design.
Basically this address identifies the location of a web page on the World Wide Web.
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