Web Hosting Advantages And Disadvantages

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Web hosting means you make your website accessible to anyone on the internet at any time (24/7). “Web hosting refers to a service that makes your website available to your users.” (quackit, 2014)Web hosting services are usually full of data and information that you wish to access. They contain links to millions of sights that will help you find the information you need. An example of this is Google. Web hosts usually share a server with many other sites. Paid web hosting is when you pay to run your server and don’t have adverts on your site. The benefits of paid web hosting are that there aren’t any pop-ups or adverts that the users using your site would find annoying. Also, there is more user dependency because they would be subscribed to the website and would feel obligated to go back (like Twitter for example). The costs to the organisation is that if there are many ads and pop-ups it would reduce the professionalism of the website and ruin the image you want to portray.

Domain names and structures
“DNS is a protocol within the set of standards for how computers exchange data on the Internet and on many private networks, known as the TCP/IP protocol suite.” (computer, 2014) This means that there is a set of procedures that they have to follow in order to share data on the internet .Advantages - “DNS servers allow standard Internet users to use Internet resources without having to remember port numbers and IP addresses.” (ehow, 2014) This means that user don’t have to remember long IRLs, they can remember a simple URL (like www.Facebook.com). Disadvantages - When setting up a IRL or URL, if you make a mistake when writing the address, the site will be directed somewhere else until the mistake is found and corrected. This c...

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...S Outlook package costs a reasonable sum of money in the regions of hundreds of pounds. This therefore means that the costs for computer based emails apps will set the organisation back.

Internet Protocols (e.g. TCP/IP).
IP is short for internet protocols. IP specifies the format of packets, also called datagrams, and the addressing scheme. Most networks combine IP with a higher-level protocol known as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which establishes a virtual connection between a destination and a source. (webopedia, 2014) The OSI, or Open System Interconnection, model defines a networking framework to implement protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, and proceeding to the bottom layer, over the channel to the next station and then back up the hierarchy. (webopediap, 2014)

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