Web HostingLan 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

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 : www.webs.com, www.brinkster.com

Type of Web hosting•Paid web hosting

▫Web hosting companies Provide many web hosting plans

More services: bigger space, higher band wide, extra services…

NO advertisements Ex : www.brinkster.com, www.godaddy.com

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▫www.brinkster.com, www.godaddy.com

•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 email box Password: your password used to log in to University’s email 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

www.brinkster.com▫Free or Paid Web hosting▫Provider : Brinkster▫Choose a plan and register an account▫Upload your website

Domain Name

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: http://www.example.net/index.html

▫Domain Name: www.example.net

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 Subdomain

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)

▫http://sites.google.com/site/Your_WebSite_Name

▫http://en.wikipedia.org

▫http://carbon.cudenver.edu

▫http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~YourUsername

▫http://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 …

▫ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_ranking_domain_registrars

• 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

▫www.brinkster.com, www.godaddy.com

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

Thanks for joining this class