We will be discussing the followings in this blog:

A role-playing game host (RPG) is basically a host entertains a game where all the players in the setup will play individual role or roles of characters in a make believe world. Normally these games will often have tabletop RPGs and rules and share settings to give score to each player when they win or lose.

World of Internet, Hosting, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, File Transfer Protocol, Linux, Hyper Text Markup Language. Blog, Byte, etc …?

The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are questions that are usually asked about most often relating to computer or laptop topics, things like new technologies, software or computer programs, technical resources, Internet and the world wide web, etc.

We do not intend to make an in-depth topic about what it contains, but we will give a brief explanation of some aspects of the related terms used on the Internet. For more information or on how to expand these and any other concepts about computing, we recommend visiting the largest Free Online Encyclopedia “Wikipedia”.

Topics and content

On the Internet

• What is the Internet all about and what is on the Internet itself?
• What can I do through the Internet and the basics on how does it work?
• Who is the founder of the Internet?
• What Internet services does it provide and how we can use it?
• What does it mean to work online or offline?
• What is TELNET?
• What is TELNET for?

About the World Wide Web (WWW)

• What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
• What is the web all about?
• What is HTML? And what is XHTML, XML, XLS and XSLT?
• What is hypertext and why it is used?
• What is hypermedia and when it is used?
• What is a browser and how is it used?
• Which is the best browser and why you need to use it?
• How can I update my browser?
• My browser does not support JAVA Applets!
• What are bookmarks and why and when you use it?
• What is a URL and how can you use it?
• What is a DNS’s and where it is used?
• What is a TLD, (Top Level Domain)?
• What are an electronic address and the relationship between it and a domain?
• What are cookies and where it is used for?
• What are “chats” and where it is used for?
• What are discussion forums?
• What are mailing lists and how you can use it?
• What does File Transfer Protocol (FTP) mean?
• What is a “cache” and where or how it can be used?

On search engines

• What are the search engines?
• How many types of search engines are there?
• What is the difference between different search engines like Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista or Lycos?

About emails

• What advantages does an electronic mail have over the traditional mails?
• Is email really a private message?
• What happens if I send a message to a person who works with a different email manager than the one I use?
• What happens if someone sends me an e-mail and I’m not connected at that time?
• Where can I send by email?
• Where do my messages go to?
• How can I locate someone on the Internet?
• What is a mailing list?
• What is the “netiquette”?
• What is PGP?
• Why messages should not be written in uppercase?
• What are emoticons or smileys?

About viruses

• What are computer viruses and what do they do?
• How do these viruses work?
• Can viruses be transmitted through attachments in an email message?
• How can we protect ourselves from it?
• What is a hoax?
• What is a worm?
• What is a Trojan horse (or Trojan horse)?
• What is VBS?
• What is a macro virus?

About electronic commerce

• What is meant by electronic commerce?
• How is electronic commerce different from traditional commerce?
• What advantages can a business offer to electronic commerce compare to traditional commerce?
• What are the main barriers to electronic commerce today?
• What types of electronic commerce are there?
• What payment systems are currently being used?
• Is it safe to pass my credit card number over the Internet?

On the Internet

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a large community of computer talking to each other and it is made up of people from all over the world, who use their computers to interact with each other to communicate, and to learn and to train others too.

What is on the Internet?

In terms of communication and information, everything.

What can I do on the Internet?

Communicate: through email, or using a mailing list to send a message to multiple people, or use it as a discussion forum, electronic chats, or video conferences can be held on it…The idea is to inform and train people or you: on any subject, at any time, from any place …Doing business on the Internet: buy and sell products or stuff.

How does it work?

Well, thousands of computers are networked together around the world, in other words, connected to each other through different physical means of transmission, using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP) communication protocol.

Who is the owner or responsible for the Internet?

Based on a concept first published in 1967, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was developed under the direction of the U.S. it was known as Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA. And the people who worked in that agency got together and name it as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).

Back in 1969, for the Internet to functioning effectively today, the basic backbone was the use of ARPANET. With 4 computers inter-connected at a University, they effectively started to communicate with each other.

The evolution of the Internet includes Leonard Kleinrock who invented packet switching (known as the basic Internet technology). In the 1970s, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf both invented the TCP/IP as a basis for the protocols. And in around 1972, network email was introduced by Ray Tomlinson.

These individuals like, Leonard Kleinrock who invented the packet switching significantly contributed and started the Internet revolution and laid the basis of the foundation to help start this innovation.

Every owner with a computer or known as a host is connected to the Internet, which means he is connected to a small fraction of the Internet. If people are not connected to the Internet, then it won’t work. Basically, it is a times haring of the system, the administrators of each side of the node or sub-network are solely responsible for being connected to the Internet for momentary periods of time.

What are work tools or Internet services?

The Internet is a medium that facilitates the communication and information management between two computers. Both aspects of work are carried out through work tools or services, which are currently listed as World Wide Web, emails, any discussion forums, mailing lists, electronic conferences or “chats”, File Transfer Protocols (FTP), etc.

What does it mean to work online or offline?

We could translate it as being connected to a network or being “Online” and hence the opposite is “offline”, that is, when we are disconnected from the network. For example, when we can be writing an e-mail offline or reading the web pages offline, as we are disconnected from the network. In this manner, we are not taking up resources on the internet which someone else can be using or being online while we are offline.

What is TELNET?

Telnet is a protocol basically used to provide a bidirectional and interactive text-oriented communication that facilitates a virtual terminal connection between two computers. It is a protocol that allows a direct connection to a remote computer. On the Internet or on a local area network (LAN), with direct communication between two computers, you can use the “command line” to control the other computer remotely. Many of the services we use are based on telnet (eg FTP or HTTP).

What is Telnet for?

Using a “Telnet” you can directly connect to another computer and access it’s services that it provides there. It allows the user on one side of the network to connect to a computer system or remote system as if it the remote terminal was in front of you. When it is connected to each other, everything that is written here is sent over to the remote terminal and everything the remote terminal sends back will be displayed on the local system screen here.

What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?

Basically, it is a collection of computers connected to each other around the world, in a literal sense the World Wide Web comprises of thousands and thousands of computers and each computer has its own multimedia documents in it and these computers are located around the world, which can be accessed using a program called browser or browser.

What is a web?

For computers to be talking to each other, they use a language specially developed for them, it’s called the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), and by containing hypertext links that allow you to connect directly to the other documents, thus forming a network, as at each node there is a computer hence a spider web or world wide web (www).

And this does not stop here, each page or website can contain text and links, but also may include multimedia such as images, or music or video. These, in turn, can be used as links to other pages within the website. Since it has more than just text or hypertext, the Web is now known as hypermedia.

What is Hyper Text Markup language (HTML) / Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) / Extensible markup language (XML) / Extensible Markup Language (XSL) and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) ?

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), is a programming language and it is used for the realization of hypertext (Web) pages. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is responsible for establishing, promoting and protecting the different standards on which all the protocols are used on the Internet are based on, as well as all the software that it interprets the data and does the communications between the different devices involved.

Currently, the updated version of the HTML standard is 5.01. As it progresses, new needs of the Information Society have generated the appearance on the scene of the most diverse brand and / or interpretation languages, data exchange, etc. with an acronym at least somewhat confusing for the neophytes, for their similarity as they are: XHTML, XML, XSL, XSLT, etc.)

What is hypertext?

It may contain words or images in a document which links to other words or documents. It makes it possible to consult documents in a non-sequential manner.

What is hypermedia?

The term hypermedia includes the concept of hypertext but offers the possibility of including multimedia information such as image, sound, text, etc. and not just text alone.

What is a browser?

It is a program that interprets programming languages (HTML, Java, etc), responsible for composing and presenting the web page that we finally see. The most used are Google, Bing, Yahoo and Microsoft Explorer or Firefox.

What is the best browser?

There are numerous interpreter programs, known as “visualizers” or “browsers”. The most popular and widely used are Google, Internet Explorer and FireFox (from Mozilla developers). From a functional point of view, they are different, and even with some quite differentiating features (the tabs in Firefox, or the integration with the Windows operating system, in the case of the Explorer).

So, it is a question, why choose one if we can get the best out of the two or more good browsers that exist …? We use a dozen of themes of usability and compatibility, but we believe that with two, at most three applications you will have more than enough 😉

How can I update my browser?

The navigation software (browsers or browsers) evolve very quickly. You can download the updated versions of both browsers from the websites of Mozilla, Microsoft, FireFox, Opera, Smart Explorer or Safari (to cite the most important)

My browser does not support JAVA Applets!

You may have an older version of your browser (download a more updated version) or simply enable Java and JavaScript from the Tools menu> Internet Options> Advanced options in Internet Explorer or Edit> Preferences> Advanced in Netscape. If you connect from an Intranet, it is possible that the DTO. A computer has intentionally disabled Java for security reasons.

What are favorites or bookmarks?

These are special files that you can create and use in the two most used browsers (Internet Explorer and Firefox). They serve to save the URLs of your favorite websites, to be able to access them more easily and quickly.

What is a URL?

It is the abbreviation for “Uniform Resource Locator”, which is a unified system of resources in the network, that allows us to access different Internet services such as WWW, FTP, News, etc. It consists of three parts: the protocol (HTTP, gopher, FTP, etc), the machine and the directories. That is: protocol: // machine / directory.

For example, http://www.powerpchost.com/servicio_buscadores.html

What is a DNS’s?

DNS means Domain Name System (System of Names by Domains). For a host to communicate with another on the Internet, it requires knowing their IP address. This consists of four numbers separated by points. In a network of millions of hosts, this could be a big problem. To solve this, the Domain Name System (DNS) was created. Under this scheme, each Internet sub-net, called a node, has a unique name that identifies it.

What is a DNS for?

To simplify the name with which the machines are accessed. It is easier to remember powerpchost.com or elpais.es than a number like 194.224.47.13

What is a TLD, (Top Level Domain)?

Node names are formed by a system of domain hierarchies. The TLDs are the main domains, which are designed to identify the Internet within the US. They are the following:

.com US Trade Segment

.edu US Educational and Academic System.gov US Government.mil US Department of Defense

.net Internet administrators and access providers

.org Non-profit non-governmental organizations.

As the Internet acquired an international reach, it was necessary to establish two-letter TLDs for each country. Some of these are for example:

.es (specifies Spain)

.fr (specifies France)

.uk (specifies United Kingdom)

.it (specifies Italy)

.at (specifies Austria)

What is the relationship between the electronic addresses and the domains?

The electronic address of a user is formed by joining his username and the domain that supports it with the symbol at (@), in the form username @ domain. Some examples of electronic addresses are of the type: info@powerpchost.com or networkingcanarias@msn.com

What are cookies?

They are text files that contain information about the client (you) and that is stored in the client machine (your computer). The idea is to allows those who send you the cookie to know which pages you visited, and how many times a month you visit, etc … All this allows you to know the browsing habits of visitors to your website, to make statistics, to improve their advertising, etc. They usually record on your computer (browsers create a directory for them that is usually called cookies) preferences and user identification (UI). They can be annoying because they occupy space on your hard drive (although the memory is limited and it cannot surpass it), but they are not dangerous since they cannot find out anything that cannot be done without them. You can avoid configuring your browser from the options menu, to ask you before accepting them or to reject them directly. However, they facilitate navigation, they are harmless and, take up little space on the hard disk.

What are “chats” for?

IRCs or Chats, allow us to connect to a program to maintain a conversation through the instant exchange of messages in groups or individually, in real time (data). Currently, it is possible to hold conversations (data + sound) at local call price via Internet, or even video conferences (data + sound + image).

What are the discussion forums?

The discussion forums or newsgroups, work as a kind of bulletin boards, through which people from all over the world interested in the same topic can get in touch. Through the newsgroups you can read messages about the most unexpected topics, as well as actively participate in them, sending and answering messages.

What is a mailing list?

The mailing lists are similar to the newsgroups, but with the difference that they are received in the mail server (that is, you receive them through email), after subscription.

What does FTP mean?

FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol, that is, protocol for the transfer of files. FTP allows you to move files from an FTP server to a user’s computer (or vice versa). It is the fundamental means to download new Internet applications, such as updated versions of browsers, antivirus, or any other program, application or database available. The user must know the name of the node that works as an FTP server and the location of the files that he wants to “download” within the file storage structure of that server.

What is the “cache”?

It is a function that keeps a copy of the last web pages visited. This means that when you return to visit them, they load more quickly, since the browser can read them from the computer copy, without having to access the Internet again.

About the search engines

What are they and what are the search engines?

They are information search services. Each of them has its own characteristics, particularly with regards to the type of information it catalogs, the syntax or the text that must be specified to perform the search, and way of presenting the results. However, they all work in a similar way.

How many types of search engines are there?

Many, but basically can be grouped into hierarchical trees or directories (eg Yahoo), search engines (Google), meta search engines (meta crawler) and specialized search engines (info jobs).

What is the difference between different search engines such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista or Lycos?

Search engines can be classified in many ways. One of them classifies them according to whether they are Directories or Search Engines. The directories are useful to search general information on any subject, since they group the webs by thematic categories, for example, Yahoo or Magellan. But if you are looking for very specific information it is better that you turn to another type of search engine. Search engines use software programs called spiders or robots that track the network, analyzing millions of websites and news, indexing all the keywords. Examples of search engines: Google, Alta Vista, Lycos or WebCrawler. There are also meta search engines, which perform a search simultaneously in several search engines. Further,

About email

What advantages does electronic mail have over traditional mail?

Speed, economy, reliability, efficiency, versatility.

Is email really private?

Messages can be interfered with and read by third parties with relative ease. For this reason, programs have been developed to automatically encode and decode messages, so that they can only be read by the people involved in it.

What happens if I send a message to a person who works with a different email manager than the one I use?

Although each user may be using a different computer or email application, and even belonging to networks of computers not directly connected to the Internet, the protocol used, SMTP (Simple Mail Protocol), ensures absolute compatibility in the exchange of messages.

What happens if someone sends me an e-mail and I’m not connected at that time?

Nothing. Messages are stored on our server until we connect to it to read them.

What can I send by email?

At present, it is possible to send all kinds of binary data as part of the email message through standards. In this way, we can send, in addition to text messages, any type of file with information: images, graphics, sounds, executable programs, etc …

Where do my messages go?

If we have access to the Internet, we will immediately have our own e-mail address and space (called a mailbox) on the computer’s disk that functions as a mail server (that of our Internet access provider). In this space will be stored the email messages that come with our address so that when we connect, we can check if we have new mail and access it. In many cases the size of this mailbox will be limited, so we will have to inform us of the space available to us so as not to lose important information.

How can I locate someone on the Internet?

Although there is no complete directory of e-mail addresses or IP addresses on the Internet if there are search tools or partial directories where you can try to find a certain address. For an address to be indexed, the user must have registered. Some of them are typical search engines such as Altavista, Infoseek or Yahoo, among others. You can also search in InterNIC Directory Services, Netfind, NetPages, Four11 Directory Services, Spanish Who Where, IAF, Look Up or in Yellow Pages or White Pages online.

What is a mailing list?

A mailing list or distribution list is a system that allows the distribution of messages to a group of people interested in a specific topic (the one in the list) after subscription. Each subscriber can send messages (by e-mail) to a specific address in the list. From there the messages are redirected to all the members of the list who, in turn, can express their opinions in the same way, thus creating a dialogue between all the components of the list. Some lists are moderate, which means that messages are filtered by the person in charge before being redirected to all members of the system. You can check the mailing lists Rediris, Mailing lists in Spain and Latin America, or mailing list directories grouped by categories such as Liszt.

What is the “netiquette”?

A code of conduct followed by people who connect to the Internet. For example, the use of capital letters should be avoided in the email, since it is interpreted as screaming.

What is PGP?

The Pretty Good Privacy is a program that allows you to encrypt the messages that we send over the Internet. The program generates two keys (or keys), one private and one public. The public key is the one that is sent to the people with whom you mail via e-mail. When someone wants to send you an encrypted message, you encrypt it with your public key and then you decode it with your private key. You can find more information about PGP in Kriptópolis.

Why should not messages be written in uppercase?

Among the users of the email is not well considered the writing in capital letters, since it implies that it is screaming. You should only use capital letters when you want to highlight something or in very special cases.

What are emoticons or smileys?

Sometimes, the written medium is a little cold and it can be difficult to express feelings of joy, sadness, anger, surprise, etc. We all know that the same phrase can mean different things depending on the intonation that is given or the gesture of our face. To alleviate this, there are emoticons or smileys, which are the union of keyboard characters to form expressions. There are many, but the most used are, for example:

🙂 Smile 😀 Laughing 🙁 Sad

: -? du da : – / Angry : -I Serious or angry

😉 Wink: -o Surprise

About viruses

What are computer viruses and what do they do?

They are programs (software) that attack the most vulnerable part of the software: programs with COM or EXE extension, modifying their structure and reproducing themselves within them. They can damage data or files, disable the computer, delete messages or remain dormant in the system, not presenting problems for long periods of time.

How do these viruses work?

The virus adheres to all mail messages sent after its execution. If we download software from the Internet, there is always the possibility of downloading one of these viruses, so it is very important to scan any file before running it with a good updated antivirus.

Can viruses be transmitted through attachments in an email message?

YES. Normally to activate them, you have to execute them. That is, you have to open the attached file. However, there are worms, which exploit vulnerabilities of some mail managers, are activated only by opening a message (in the preview panel) and without needing to execute an attached file.

How can we protect ourselves?

It is best not to run the attachments that come from sources of dubious reliability, unsolicited, of which we do not know their origin or purpose. It is advisable to scan the files with a good updated antivirus before opening them since it is when these files are run that the viruses are activated. There are excellent antivirus programs on the market and on the Internet that scan the hard drive for viruses and can eliminate them. Some of the best known are the Norton, the McAfee or the Panda. Some can be obtained free or through shareware. It is very important to update the versions frequently to be able to trust a minimum of security.

What is a hoax?

It is a message about a fake virus through email. Actually, the message itself is the virus, as hundreds of scary users, we send to send to all our friends to prevent them from the terrible danger, while Internet providers saturate their servers with the same message thousands of times repeated.

What is a worm?

Technically it is not a virus but acts by spreading (without the consent of the issuer) via email or through IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

What is a Trojan horse (or Trojan horse)?

It is a program that theoretically aims to offer (or affirms) a series of advantages or useful features, but which actually contains harmful software. Technically it is not a virus either since it does not have the ability to reproduce.

What is VBS?

It is a new method of virus diffusion, which uses Scripts. They are problematic in the case of users of Internet Explorer 5 and 6 or Outlook 98/2000/2001 XP or higher.

What is a macro virus?

Macros are a series of instructions that users can create or edit to automate tasks in certain applications or systems. A macro virus is a malicious macro, which a user can inadvertently execute, and which can cause damage or replicate.

About electronic commerce

What is meant by electronic commerce?

The set of commercial and financial transactions conducted by electronic means. It is the global system that, using computer networks and in particular the Internet, allows the creation of an electronic market of all kinds of products, services, technologies, and goods and that includes all the operations necessary to carry out purchase and sale operations. If you are researching and trying to SELL on the Internet, without a doubt, the Hispanic Marketing Guru Álvaro Mendozacan help you.

How is electronic commerce different from traditional commerce?

The operations are carried out electronically or digitally, regardless of where the parties are located. Intermediations are reduced, and transactions are faster.

What advantages can a business provide to electronic commerce compared to traditional commerce?

Widening the market, improving customer service, faster, reducing costs, greater competitiveness, simplifying the purchasing process by reducing intermediaries, advertising and online marketing, etc.

What are the main barriers to electronic commerce today?

Conflict with the traditional sales channel, inadequate product, consumer habits, scarce diffusion, logistics, a speed of transmission, technological brake, confidentiality of data, lack of corporate culture, cost of investment.

What types of electronic commerce are there?

Basically Two Types:

Indirect electronic commerce: acquisition of tangible goods that need to be sent physically through traditional channels of distribution.

Direct electronic commerce: the order, the payment and the shipment of Intangible Assets and/or services are produced online (for example, software, information …)

And it can be focused in front of

o Intra company

o Company-company

o Company-final consumer

o Consumer-consumer

What payment systems are currently being used?

o Cash on delivery

o Credit card

o Virtual-cash

o Financing

o Wire transfer

Is it safe to pass my credit card number over the Internet?

There is a perception that it is risky, but in reality, it is no more dangerous than giving the credit card number by phone, fax or in a restaurant or store, where we lose sight of it for a few minutes. In fact, it is a question where common sense should prevail: we know the reputation of the company?

But having a physical address or simply a post office? … If you have doubts about the reliability of the trade in question, do not transmit the number electronically and call them to request more information.

What you should NOT do is send a “credit card number” through the e-mail.

If you want more information about electronic commerce and payment systems, read this article in English Safe Surfing.

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What are Hosting needs?

Let me give you an example, let’s say you have a domain name, now that is like an “address” and hosting, on the other hand, is like a “house” at that “address”. So, this house will have all the necessary items in that house, like a living room, dining room, and bedrooms. Likewise for a website you need things like a “Contact Us” page, A “About Us” page, A “Privacy Policies and Terms” and a “Service Page” that is, like the main page, with an article themed around about your website, like a “Branded Furniture” or “Birds of The World”. And any other pages that you may want to include.

Now let’s say that someone is searching for your domain name or your “address” and they arrive at your “house” and obviously they would enter the “house” upon invitation. In the same manner, if someone searches for your domain name on the internet and arrives at your website, they will click on the pages. It’s the same as the person going into your house and checking all the items there. So, getting a hosting plan to host your website is like setting up the items in a house, so it should be an affordable one or at least at an affordable price. There are many hosting plans and all that depends on what you need basically.

They are normally billed on a monthly basis or you can opt for an annually billed plan. So, in this case, you will be billed for a one year in advance, but you may get 1 month free with some hosting companies (basically, that means you are paying for 11 months in total, that’s a lot of savings). But do remember, that all prices quoted might include a VAT and other fees. As said earlier, you first need to build out your website and include basic pages like “contact us” or “Our Services” and Privacy Policies and Terms and many other pages.

There are other Hosting plans that come in “Packages”, but you can buy the basic Hosting plan alone if you are up to challenges. However, you will have to remember this package is a basic package and host support will not be much or support is low. So, you might have to take care of any issues that might crop up with your site on your own and the best support you will ever get will be to get email support only as a last resort.

Some high-end packages may include web-stats, that is, your host provides statistics or website analysis. These packages give insights into your website’s uptime and visitor traffic activities. Naturally, these packages will cost higher or an additional amount. And there are “Web Statistics Unlimited” packages or some with “Autoresponders” where your opt-ins through your, “contact us” pages may get a response from your behalf.

This is useful feature may help you if you are dealing with clients who may reach you through your website. This feature may help you with the “traffic conversion” statistics. And there is the “E-mail Aliases” package, this helps you in case you don’t want to use your real email for the communications purposes or there are cases where their personal emails get flooded with unwanted emails and this feature helps to eliminate that. And there is this feature “E-mail Forwarders Password”, this feature is all about having “captchas” in your contact page where you can be protected from bots trying to get to your emails by filling up these contact pages.

Another feature is the “Cart Control”, this feature is all for anyone dealing with e-commerce websites with many items to sell. This helps at the cart or checkout page, where your clients abandon the cart due to some urgent call or get pulled away before completing the order. This feature will re-target them to complete the cart where they had left off. Lastly, we have this feature, called “Audio / Video Unlimited” plan, now this plan or feature helps greatly if you are having lots of pictures and videos on your website. This helps with the bandwidth where it can slow down your website with a basic plan.

What is meant by the word “hosting”?

It can be either Web Hosting or Website hosting, and it’s a place where files are kept or maintained for a website. It’s basically like you are leasing some memory space in kilobytes or megabytes in a computer to hold your website files. What is meant by Web Hosting? A service provider who uses the latest technologies to provide hosting on servers, which are like special computers as a service to website owners at a reasonable price.

What does, hosting fee include?

Basically, you are paying a fixed-fee for some memory space on a server for hosting your, website. It can either be charged on a monthly basis or on a yearly basis. It can range from a couple of dollars to a few $100 dollars depending on server types, which can include additional memory space or extra bandwidth for e-commerce sites. And there are other things as database support, CGI access, ASP and SSL certificates.

Which hosting is the best?

Best is to google and search for hosting reviews, you might get results such as;

1. Host Gator

2. Dream Host

3. TMD Hosting

4. Hostwinds

5. A2 Web

6. AccuWeb

7. GoDaddy

8. InMotion

Why do you need to host a website?

For your website to be live and active on the internet, your website needs to be hosted. It’s impossible to have a domain name or website active without having any hosting services with it.

What do I need to do to host my website?

a) We take it that you have already had a Domain name registered.

b) Get the DNS address from the Domain Name Registrar

c) Then choose a Hosting company and a Hosting plan.

d) Next, you need to set the DNS Address on the Hosting side.

e) Then you can build your website, or you can upload your website to the hosting company.

What are SSL certificates and why you need it?

Basically, this about your website having security for visitors visiting your site. For example, someone visits your website and gives their name and credit card number and contact number to you through your “contact form”. This feature keeps your information from being stolen. There are two types of SSL certificates, one is with SSL and the other without SSL.

If your website URL starts with https://yourdomain.com then it is safe, and it has “SSL certificates”. On the other hand, if your website URL starts without http://yourdomain.com then it is not safe, and it does not have an “SSL certificates”. Let’s say you use a “Browser” like Google or Firefox to connect to your website, then if your server identifies itself, then it is secure with SSL certificates (https) and the server will send a public key with the SSL certificate and your session while browsing is safe and secure. On the other hand, if your server does not send SSL certificate then it is unsafe to browse that website, but you have to take your chances with such websites.

The idea behind all this is to “encrypt our Information” so as to keep our sensitive data sent across the web “encrypted” so that unintended recipients cannot get or access our information or data. So data or information is kept “unreadable” to undesirable parties except for the servers that are communicating with you. Why I need an SSL certificate? You need an SSL certificate basically to establish a secure channel for data transmission through a private connection. And if you want others to access your website through an HTTPS connection an SSL Certificate is required.

What SSL stand for?

“Secure Sockets Layer” and it uses a cryptographic system, which uses 2 keys to encrypt data and is basically a protocol set up to create a safe connection between a client and the server.

Which port does SSL use?

Generally, Http uses port 80 and Https uses port 443 and performs automatic SSL communication and sends encrypted data across servers.

3 Steps How to secure your website?

1. Your website comes with dedicated IP address

2. You can purchase SSL Certificate and install it for your site

3. Lastly, do not forget to update your site to https.

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