Unit 28 – Website Production Assignment 1
Alex Aricci – 2nd October 2014
P1
Introduction
The purpose of this report is to outline the web architecture and components that enable internet and web functionality.
Internet Service Providers (ISP)
ISPs are the companies which own or rent the infrastructure which provides internet access to its customers for a fee. ISPs often offer different services at different price points with more expensive ones often having higher bandwidth and download limits (or no download limits at all) as well as sometimes providing phone and digital TV services (for instance, Sky, Virgin, BT) although available services vary locally due to differences in infrastructure.
Web Hosting Services
Web hosting services provide space and bandwidth on the internet for people to make their websites available online. When a web page is requested the web host sends a web page to someone trying to access it via a server.
Domain Structure
The Domain Name system is a system on the internet used to translate IP addresses (long string of numbers that describe the “location” of a resource on the internet) into recognisable names, this makes it easier for humans to navigate the internet as it is much easier to remember the name of a website than to remember its I.P. address. It is a hierarchical system that points users to various resources, computers or services on the internet, such as images or videos.
Domain Name Registrars
Domain Name Registrars allow
This lets people or/business’s design their own website over the internet. All companies that host a web supply data space on servers that is owned so that the clients can use it. As well as providing internet connection too. This is what some people also refer to it as a Data Centre. Also web hosts supply data spaces and connectivity for other things that are located in a Data Centre and web host can also maintain a website 24/7
A web hosting service allows companies and individuals to make their website accessible from the World Wide Web. This works by storing your website files on high
Web hosting services – this is where a user will buy a certain amount of storage space on a company’s network, which will then be visible to the public through a IP address, and store their website files so a third user can visit the website. This allows users to view the website by downloading packets of information.
DNS stands for ‘Domain Name System’. It is an internet service that works like a
DNS- DNS stands for domain name server and is a network of servers that keep track of Internet Domain Names. Its main job is to authenticate and find domains. It translates IP Addresses into numbers, for example, 172.194.40.143 translates into
Internet edge- The part of the Internet between an ISP and the ISP customer, whether the customer is a company or organization with a large private TCP/IP network, or whether the customer is a single individual.
$100 million web-enablement initiatives have been executed by Cisco in early 1990s. Cisco strategy was to use all standard equipment, tools, and smart group of people to apply the web-enablement. Most of the interactions were network-based and begin at home page of cisco which allowed the employees to communicate with customers, partners, and suppliers more efficiently and effectively. Applications of intranet and internet were created as a part of these initiatives. Most efficient applications will be illustrated in the following lines.
The role of a web host is that they rent out space available on there servers by doing this this allows files to be connected to the internet they will only give you a set amount of space for a set fee this is used by thousands of people as it is not always possible to buy a server that can cost thousands of pounds
A web hosting company allows business big and small, also individuals to make their websites accessible on the internet over the WWW (World Wide Web) hosting companies provide space on a server, this can be rented space or the actual server itself can be owned by the client. Everything that is stored at a data centre sits on a server, a server is basically a powerful pc that is capable of storing different data, or websites, that are then accessible through the network of the internet.
1984: The year 1984 saw the introduction of Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS is a decentralized naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It links information with domain names allotted to each of the partaking entities. Most importantly, it interprets more readily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses required to determine the location of and to identify the computer services and devices with the fundamental network protocols. The first domain name registered was symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
Internet Service Providers (IPS) – With IPS, they are companies that will measure the amount of data that you are sending through the internet, they basically give the users access to the internet in order to use it. A lot of IPS in our time will allow many ways to connect the user to the internet, the three main ways that are used are; Digital subscriber line (DSL), fibre optic, broadband, and many different ones in the world that allows people to use them. Examples of the service providers in the UK can be Virgin Media, Sky, and BT, that provides the customer with internet to their house through the routers,
The Domain Name System or DNS is an international address system developed to ensure that every computer connected to the Internet has its own address. DNS assigns addresses to Internet web servers [10]. However, in the DNS system, that address is actually a set of numbers like 173.194.39.78. This set of numbers is called the computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address.
When you type a website name into your browser, your browser first does a lookup for the domain’s IP address. Once the IP address is found, the browser makes a request to the server for a connection. The server accepts, and then it sends you the website’s HTML for your browser to display. Let’s say you find a contact form on a website and want to send the owner a message. You type your
An Internet address (for example, http://sju.com/men/), usually consisting of the access protocol (HTTP), the domain name(sju.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on the server where the domain name resides (nest).
The project has been successfully implemented. IIS web server on Windows Operating system is installed and configured to run company’s website.