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Intro To Owning A Web Site
The Basics of Web Sites
Owning a web site requires you to buy two things:
- A domain name ($10-$25/year)
- Hosting space ($5+/month)
You buy a domain name from a registrar company. You buy hosting space from a hosting company.
The registrar companies allows you to register for a domain name (i.e. ockhamdesign.com, etc.) and the internet address of your hosting company. A hosting company rents hard drive space on their computers to put your web site so the outside world has access to it.
From the browser to website and back
- A person types in www.ockhamdesign.com into their browser
- The browser makes a request your Intenet Provider's (Comcast, Qwest, etc) DNS server to look up the internet address of the hosting company for Ockham Design
- The browser request gets sent over to the hosting company computer
- The hosting companies computers sees the request is for Ockham Design so it goes to the hard drive space for Ockham Design
- The hosting company sends back the HTML and images for the homepage back to the browser
Without a domain name, Step 2 doesn't happen. Without a hosting company, Steps 3-5 doesn't happen.