We start it off with WEB HOSTING

Well the internet usage i India is growing at the pace of 250% a year. More and more Indians are getting net savvy, but how many of us really know

• How the net works?
  
• How are the pages displayed?
  
• How can you host your own web site?
  

AND Many more questions remains unanswered. Well i'm just making an effort to give you the basics off all these things some higher order definitions and concepts will be discussed in subsequent blogs..
As for now I am just explaining the basic terms related to WWW(world wide web).
Hope that you will enjoy as you read along....

What is the World Wide Web?
* The Web is a network of computers all over the world.
* All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other.
* All the computers use a communication standard called HTTP.


How does the WWW work?
* Web information is stored in documents called web pages.
* Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
* Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
* Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
* Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.


How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?
* A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
* A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
* An address may looks like this: http://www.orkut.com.


How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?
* All web pages contain instructions for display
* The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
* The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
* HTML is a scripting language and really very easy to learn.


What is a Web Server?
* The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
* To let others view your work, you must publish your web site.
* To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
* Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
* Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).


What is an Internet Service Provider?
# An ISP provides Internet services.
# A common Internet service is web hosting.
# Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.
# Web hosting normally includes email services.
# Web hosting often includes domain name registration.

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So this is all for today stay tuned to this blog for more and more updates about all the hon-chows in the computer world.
Till then this is PAWAN NAULAKHA signing off......