Free web hosting vocabulary class
If you want to have a web site, you're going to need a web host. In order to teach you a bit about web hosting, let's look at an advertisement for Lunarpages, the company I use to host ESLgo.com:
Now let's see what the ad means:
2,000 MB web space refers to how much information you can store on your site. MB stands for megabyte, or 1,000,000 bytes. This web hosting class is about 10 KB (1 kilobyte = 1,000 bytes) so you could store a ton of these web hosting class web pages on a site hosted by Lunarpages. 650 MB is about the same amount of information that could be stored on a CD-ROM.
5 gigs transfer/day refers to bandwidth, or how many people can look at your web pages. Every time someone looks at a web page, the server has to send information to that person's computer. The amount of information Lunarpages will send is 15 GB (GB stands for gigabyte and 1 GB = 1,024 MB) every day. So even though I can have a lot of classes, if too many people visit too many classes, Lunarpages will get mad at tme and ask for more money or shut me down. Don't worry, if you're studying hard I don't mind paying for the web hosting!
These are not shown in the ad, but Lunarpages also gives clients POP3/IMAP & SMTP. This refers to how many e-mail addresses you can have. For example, I could set up 650 ____@eslgo.com email addresses.
Lunarpages guarantees 99.9% uptime. Uptime refers to how much of the time people can see your site. Occasionally servers have problems, and then when someone goes to your website they won't see anything but an error message. If a web site is hosted by Lunarpages, people should be able to see it 99.9% of the time.
Here's a web host vocabulary test. Try to type the letter of the correct definition into the box on the left of each word.
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