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What Do You Mean Website Hosting

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 4:30 am  
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Everyone wants to be on the internet, the opportunities in the internet are limitless. However, when you say you want to be on the internet, what exactly is entailed in being on the internet. Having a presence on the internet requires only a few things, a domain registration, a website hosting and an .ftp upload program. Now if your mind just fogged over and you decided to stop ready, WAIT!. Keep going, we are going to explain this is pretty simple terms for those of you who aren’t internet savvy, yet. So unfog your brain for a few minutes and hang in there. The internet is a huge highway and parking lot sale and a website is the parking lot where you have items displayed.

Domain Registration

Domain registration is fairly easy to understand, its your name, or your parking lot on the internet. Once you find a catchy name, not already taken, you will register that name and that registration usually comes along with a website hosting product. It is you .com, though other choices are now available such as .biz, .net, .org, .tv, etc. Doesn’t sound so bad, does it? You can check to see if your domain is still available by using the WHOIS.

Website Hosting and Small Business Web Hosting

I list these two headings together because they are related. Website hosting is a service that is offered by ISP (internet service provider) for a fee. The fee is generally associated with a package of services that you can buy from the ISP. One of those services is a small business web hosting which provides a package of the services that most small businesses will need to get a website up and running. Otherwise, website hosting packages come with email, storage space and bandwidth choices. Once again I heard your brain fog over.

E-mail is the number of mailboxes you need, storage space is the amount of space your website will take up and bandwidth is how much transfer of bits is involved in your website. To go back to our parking lot analogy, your storage space is the size of your parking lot, the e-mail is how many mail slots your need and your bandwidth is the traffic in your parking lot. Figure out your parking lot size by figuring out how many bytes all your website pages and pictures.

Bandwidth is how much data is transferred each time someone visits your site. If you website is 1 MB (1000 bytes) and you have 5 visitors a day you use 5000 bytes. However, remember if you have multiple pages, figure that each visitor will click on each page at least once. So when you look at your website hosting, look for the amount of these three items needed.

.ftp Program

You have almost survived your website hosting decisions, you just need to determine how you are going to get your website up to the ISP server. To do this you will need a .ftp (file transfer protocol) program. Many website hosting services have a built-in .ftp services and many choices of programs are available. To go back to our parking lot analogy, this is the forklift you use to put your products out for public view. This program will transfer the files that you have created on your computer, to the computer space you have purchased on your website hosting service’s server.

Website hosting is not a small decision and while we have tried to provide you a humorous look at the decision, choose your website hosting carefully.

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Survey Of Three Basic Types Of Software.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 6:30 pm  
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There are three main types of software, with there own subsections:

1. Commercial software, bought with a licence for one or more computers. This usually include some form of support and regular updates to patch errors etc. Sometimes a new version of the software is offered at a special price as “update”. This type of software is usually very expensive and is often created to cover particular industrial goals. The big exception is the various sets of “office” software, which are created for use in the commercial environment, but can without a lot of problems be used for various tasks at home.

The most common use in this category is, of course, text redaction. Most of the other typical “office” applications, such as calculations and data bases are only of limited use in the domestic environment, although they will be used in some cases, properly now that the more computer-literate generation is growing.
2. Relieved; or “lite” versions of the commercial software. These are oriented to small businesses and enterprises that do not need the complete capabilities of, for example, a 3-D modelling system, but must be able to view such documentation and prepare compatible drawings.

Again, the “office” environment was for many a long day not represented in this sector, but has now started to be available. These will also come with a single or multiple, but limited licence and now mostly be registered with the producer.
3. Free or “open source” software. This is created for general distribution and has no specific restrictions as to use, except that it may not be altered in any way. Naturally, such software has its limitations, but may serve very admissibly for many purposes. Practically all types of software are to be found in this category. One notable application distributes the software to read its documents freely, but charges for the software to produce the documents. This policy is possibly the motor behind its ride to a position as industry standard, since you can always be certain that he receiver can decipher whatever is sent, without long discussions about compatibility and versions.

It is obvious that, there can be no piracy of products that fall into the third category, except for modification of the code or reuse of the code for other purposes. Linux community has efficiently utilized this model to provide a number of successful and popular packages.

Taking all things into consideration, it can be said that now, free or “open source” software plays a chief role in building the software industry and it has not problem of piracy, because does not limit the use of software.
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