Introduction to Web Hosting

Introduction to Web Hosting

How does the Web work? How can I make my own Web Site?

What is a Web Host? What is an Internet Service Provider?

What is the World Wide Web?

* The Web is a network of computers all over the world.

* All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other.

* All the computers use a communication standard called HTTP.

How does the WWW work?

* Web information is stored in documents called web pages.

* Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.

* Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.

* Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.

* Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?

* A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.

* A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.

* An address may look like this: http://www.someone.com/page.htm.

How does a Browser Display a Web Page?

* All web pages contain instructions for display

* The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.

* The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.

* HTML tags look like this <p>This is a Paragraph</p>.

If you want to learn more about HTML, please visit our HTML tutorial.

What is a Web Server?

* The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.

* To let others view your work, you must publish your web site.

* To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.

* Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.

* Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

What is an Internet Service Provider?

* ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.

* An ISP provides Internet services.

* A common Internet service is web hosting.

* Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.

* Web hosting normally includes email services.

* Web hosting often includes domain name registration.

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Web Hosting Database Technologies

SQL Server or Oracle for high traffic database-driven web sites.

Access or MySQL for low traffics database-access.

Web Databases

If your web site needs to update large quantities of information via the web, you will need a database to store your information.

There are many different database systems available for web hosting. The most common are MS Access, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.

Using the SQL Language

SQL is the language for accessing databases.

If you want your web site to be able to store and retrieve data from a database, your web server should have access to a database-system that uses the SQL language.

If you want to learn more about SQL, please visit our SQL tutorial.

SQL Server

Microsoft's SQL Server is one of the most popular database software for database-driven web sites with high traffic.

SQL Server is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

Oracle

Oracle is also a very popular database software for database-driven web sites with high traffic.

Oracle is a very powerful, robust and full featured SQL database system.

Access

When a web site requires a simple database solution, Microsoft Access is a very popular option.

Access is not well suited for very high-traffic, and not as powerful as Oracle or SQL Server.

MySQL

MySQL is also a popular database software for web sites.

MySQL is an inexpensive alternative to the expensive Microsoft and Oracle solutions.