Web Hosting Lan Vu

How does a Website work ?

Web development concepts Web Design Web Hosting Domain Name

Web Design How does my website look like ? See lecture 1 - 5

Web Hosting Where is my website located ?

Domain Name What is my website address ?

Web hosting

Uploading & Storing website at servers that are accessible via the World Wide Web

Type of Web hosting Free web hosting Paid web hosting Home web hosting

Type of Web hosting Free web hosting ▫ Many companies & organizations  Only for their members  Ex: UCD students can host their website at Ouray server ▫ Web hosting companies  Limited services : space, band wide …  Adding advertisements  Ex :

Type of Web hosting Paid web hosting ▫ Web hosting companies  Provide many web hosting plans  More services: b igger space, higher band wide, extra services…  NO advertisements  Ex :

Type of Web hosting Home web hosting ▫ Use your home PC as hosting server  PC with Internet Connection  Register for a static IP address from Internet provider or use dynamic DNS service  Web server software installed and running on your PC. Ex: IIS, Apache …

Selecting a type of web hosting Evaluate the requirements of the website ▫ Space ▫ Web Traffic ▫ Scripting Language: PHP, ASP, ASPX … ▫ Database: MySQL, Access, SQL Server … ▫ Platform: Linux, Windows Budget Security

How can I host my website ? Select a type of web hosting ▫ Free hosting, Paid hosting or Self hosting Choose a web hosting provider ▫ Self hosting  I am my own provider Register for an account at provider website ▫ At UCD, your account is generated and hosted Ouray server when you enroll ▫ Upload your website to server

How can I host my website ? An example: hosting your website at UCD ▫ Free Web hosting ▫ Provider : UCD ▫ Your account is available when you enroll  Host: ouray.cudenver.edu  Username: your username used to log in to University’s box  Password: your password used to log in to University’s box ▫ Uploading your website  Can use WinSCP  Port number: 22 ( default)  File protocol: SFTP ( default)  See lecture 1 for detail instructions

How can I host my website ? An example: hosting your website at ▫ Free or Paid Web hosting ▫ Provider : Brinkster ▫ Choose a plan and register an account ▫ Upload your website

Domain Name

The name that identifies a website It is a component of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) used to access websites For example: ▫ URL: ▫ Domain Name:

Domain Name Domain Levels ▫ Ex: en.wikipedia.org Top-level domain: gov, edu, com, org, net, info, us Second-level domain : created based on the name of a company, organization, product, people … ▫ wikipedia, ucdenver, google, yahoo Third-level domain: used to designate a particular host server, a department, function, or service… ▫Also called S ubdomain Top-levelSecond-level Third-level

Resale of domain names Business.com for $7.5 million in December 1999 AsSeenOnTv.com for $5.1 million in January 2000 Altavista.com for $3.3 million in August 1998 Wine.com for $2.9 million in September 1999 CreditCards.com for $2.75 million in July 2004 Autos.com for $2.2 million in December 1999

Website address URL to a website (also called web link) ▫ sites.google.com/site/ Your_WebSite_Name ▫ en.wikipedia.org ▫ carbon.cudenver.edu ▫ ouray.cudenver.edu/~YourUsername ▫ sites.google.com/site

How to have a Website address with my own domain name? Register your domain name at a domain name registrar ▫ Domain name registrar: organization/company is authorized to provide domain name ▫ Ex: GoDaddy, eNom, Tucows, Network Solutions … ▫ Map the domain name to your web link provided web hosting provider See the instructions of web hosting provider and domain name registrar Many providers provides both web hosting and domain name registration services ▫

NOTE !!! Prof. Gita Algraband may request you to submit your ePorfolio Website link at the end of this semester Contact me if you need any help in creating your website You can find me at Raytheon Lab: ▫ Every afternoon, Monday – Friday ▫ 12:30 pm – 16:30 pm

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