Shared web hosting plans let you share a central server with other website owners, thereby decreasing the cost of the hosting plan. Although there are some risks involved with shared web hosting, there are also benefits. The following information will help you decide if shared web hosting is right for you. (more)

Domain names are essentially a human way of allowing the Internet to work. Every single computer that exists on the Internet is given a number to identify itself (an “IP address” such as 69.73.172.201). Within this sequence of numbers is also a way of finding out who else is in your “group” and where to find other “groups” but that’s starting to get a bit complex for our needs here. (more)

Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more efficiently.

One widely used application is shared web hosting. Shared web hosting prices are lower than a dedicated web server, because this allows many customers to be hosted on a single server. (more)

Encryption works by encoding the text of a message with a key. In traditional encryption systems, the same key was used for both encoding and decoding. In the new public key or asymmetric encryption systems, keys come in pairs: one key is used for encoding and another for decoding. In this system everyone owns a unique pair of keys. One of the keys, called the public key, is widely distributed and used for encoding messages. The other key, called the private key, is a closely held secret used to decrypt incoming message. (more)

Don’t know what’s people saying about computer and internet? Lots of strange gibberish associated with computers; and the industry just loves acronyms. We already record some of them and you can add it in our comment form, or correct me if I am wrong. The whole dictionary divide into pages for loading speed up. (more)

Ever feel like you’re talking to someone from a foreign country when all you want is a little help with your website? Web Hosting Jargon explains what some of the web hosting industry’s technical terms mean, so the next time you contact tech support you’ll feel like you’re talking to someone who lives a little closer to home. Today we’re going to look at the job of a name server. (more)

Web design is a relatively new profession compared to other forms of design, due to the youth of our medium. As with any design discipline, there are aspects of the Web design process that are unique to the medium, such as screen resolution, additive color spaces and image compression. (more)