These days, businesses have to
constantly see to it that they remain on top of the marketing race.
In recent years, this has taken to a new battlefield: the Internet.
If you want to make sure that you don’t fall behind the
competition, it’s important that you know the basics of having a
website up and running, so here are some facts about web hosting you
should keep in mind:
Domain Name
Your domain name is the actual name
that you’ll be using on your site, and to claim one, you should
register it, preferably with the help of a reliable web hosting
service. Keep in mind that each computer has a unique code which is
known as its IP address. The domain name is a sort of an alias for
the IP address so it can be identified.
URL
The uniform resource locator (URL)
refers to the global address where documents on the World Wide Web
are stored. The first part identifies the protocol to use, often
HyperText Transfer Protocol or HTTP, and the second part refers to
your domain name. This is then what you see in your web browser’s
address bar (for example: http://www.domain.com).
Hosting
Now that your website ‘documents’
have an address in the web, the next step is to ensure that visitors
using your URL are efficiently being routed to your site. This is
what’s referred to as hosting.