Unfortunately, the Internet can’t be fully explained at all, since there’s no central authority that designs or implements the highly distributed entity called “The Internet.”
continue reading "How The Internet Works"

The web sites you visit are all hosted on servers somewhere on the Internet. Web hosts are companies that offer Internet-connected servers that provide space and bandwidth for a domain, for one or more web sites.
continue reading "What Type Of Web Hosting Do You Need?"

Anything related to the Internet or computers is bound to introduce technical issues pretty soon. One that novice web site owners encounter fairly quickly is FTP, which is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol. Seeing it spelled out, it’s easy to see why those in the know quickly move to speaking in shorthand.
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As a web site owner, you probably want visitors to have a way to contact you if they want more information about your product or service. Maybe you include an email link on your pages or on a “contact us” page.
continue reading "The Pitfalls Of Email"

For most web site owners, the primary focus is naturally on creating, maintaining and enhancing the site. That often is just part of managing an entire business, for which the web site is just the means to an end.
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‘Database’ is one of the most commonly used terms that one encounters in web site design. Yet, what they really are and whether they’re essential is often not clear to novices.
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There are some things that as a beginning site owner you’ll not have to deal with. But, as your site grows and your popularity among web visitors grows, there are aspects of site ownership you’ll want to know more about.
continue reading "Hosting Redundancy And Failover"

There can be any number of disasters than can happen to a web site. One of the worst is when a hosting company’s server fails due to a bad hard drive and all the files are lost.
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Okay, so you have a web site hosted either on a server shared with other site owners or on your own dedicated server. That server is nothing more than a computer with a hard drive. A some point, managing the disk space for your site may become a concern.
continue reading "Making Sense of Disk Space Management"

As a web site owner you will, at some point, need to know about bandwidth and server load and how it relates to your site’s performance and hosting cost.
continue reading "Understanding Bandwidth And Server Load"