July 18, 2009
As discussed in a previous post here, somewebsite.com is an example of a domain name.
However, as almost any Internet user would know, we normally access all websites via a web browser using an address like www.somewebsite.com.
Now, if somewebsite.com is a domain, what is www.somewebsite.com?
Well, technically, the www part in the example above is a subdomain. [...]
July 17, 2009
While those who are even slightly initiated in to the world of web technologies may feel that this is a moot question, there are many noobs who would not know what a domain name – or domain – is.
Citing an example would probably answer this question in very short order:
somesite.com is a domain. So are
anothersite.net [...]
July 16, 2009
Just as PHP has emerged as the scripting language of choice for web developers and programmers, MySQL – another open source software – has emerged as the database management system of choice.
A database management system (dbms) is usually an integral – if not critical – component required to publish a dynamically generated web site.
A web [...]
July 15, 2009
As we’ve mentioned in the previous post on the topic, there are no ’set’ web hosting industry norms or standards to define ‘unlimited web hosting’.
Most large markets and industries have some norms, some standards, some regulations and often, some regulatory authorities. As we can readily imagine, there is a very good reason for this. In [...]
July 14, 2009
While most people and organizations today don’t need more that one web site, there may be many cases where such need exists. Almost all basic web hosting plans today come with the standard feature of hosting one domain.
However, if, for any reason, you need to host more that one domain / web site, you’ll need [...]
July 14, 2009
You may be surprised to know that the phrase ‘Unlimited Hosting’ is searched for nearly 5000 times per day online. That is close to 150,000 people looking for unlimited web hosting every month.
Interestingly, the fact is that unlimited web hosting is a bit of a misnomer.
In reality, there is no standard, set definition of the [...]
July 14, 2009
PHP – the open source web development scripting language has today attained the position of ‘the language of choice’ for all web programming tasks and applications for tens – if not hundreds – of thousands of web developers.
In order to create a web site that can serve dynamically generated web pages using PHP scripts, we [...]