Getting Started
In this lesson, we will briefly discuss Domain Name, DNS Server, and Web Hosting and how they work together to make a website run online.
We'll cover the following...
As mentioned in the previous lesson, all a website need is a Domain name, DNS, and a web hosting service to appear online. In this section, we will discuss all three elements briefly and see what makes them so important.
Domain Name:
A domain name is a unique address (URL) which the user would type to visit your website. The reason we use domain names instead of IP addresses is that names are easier to remember than a long string of numbers. Imagine how difficult it would be to remember the addresses of all the ...