If you are a proud owner of some website, you might have think of getting a deticated webserver for your site. And lot of us now have there own web server that are fully controlled by them. aah, not by them but by some applications called Cpanel, Plesk, webmin, etc etc.

Using these application you have hosted few domains on your webserver and it all works fine. But people who want to in depth of how a domain is hosted this article is for them.

let me define the domain. Domain is just a unique name given to your organization in cyber space. Actually this is not official defination but my way of looking to a domain. With my sentence above, I mean if I have Vikasumit.com it means “vikasumit” is a company/person/group/community/etc which is acting commerically. This is what the basic thinking of getting a domain.
This also mean “vikasumit.net” is a company/person/group/community/etc which is a active in Computer Networks. But these defination are avoided today and any one can have any domain for no reason. like a company will take .com,.org,.net and some there country domain for no reason. Infact for reason of mailing spam or “not to lose a single Hit”.

Now, what is http://www.vikasumit.com than, well it’s a URL for your “World Wide Web” that use “http”protocal by web browser and Machine that have your domain hosted.
Also, I have constantly us a word a webserver in this post refering to a hardware machine that I called dedicated Machine for your domain. I use this term in wrong manner as its not just a web server but in general a “server” which have web server, mail server, Nameserver and lot more servers running on it. I will explain these terms later in another post.

Its hard to write something …:o)

Bye for today.

Sumit Gupta