What are web servers? Why are they necessary?
May 4th, 2011 | 
Posted in Web Hosting Tutorial Series
Video #2: What are web servers? Why are they necessary?
This video tutorial will teach you what a web server is and why they are essential to running your website.
Web servers are computers that have been set up by a hosting company, usually in a facility called a datacenter. A web server’s primary purpose is to store the content of websites – HTML web pages, images, style sheets, etc – and then quickly deliver that information to a visitor’s browser when it is requested.
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What is web hosting?
Web Hosting Tutorial Series
Video #1: What is Web Hosting?
It might appear to the average web surfer that the Internet works all by itself. However, many website owners have come to learn that’s not the case at all. Web hosting is a critical component of how the Internet works today. But what is web hosting, really?
In order for your website to visible and available to the world, it hast to be hosted on a web server. Web hosting is a service provided by thousands of businesses – Internet service providers and/or web hosting companies – worldwide. They set up and maintain entire buildings called datacenters that are full of computer systems called servers.
IDNs: How To Host International Domain Name Extensions
When running an online business, the more people the site is available to the better. Obviously, the more people that can find your site, surf the pages, and make purchases, the more money you are going to make. As a result, international domain name (IDN) registration becomes a must in order to ensure you control your site domain name in all of the country specific top-level domain name extensions.
The three most common extensions for domain names today are .com, .org or .net. It is almost guaranteed your current site has one of these three as they are the main extensions to date. With an IDN domain name, you are able to keep the website domain name while having the country specific extension.
