DNS (Domain
Name Server) is the underlying reason that the internet works with
such simplicity. Every day we type in different email addresses,
websites and so on, but with thousands of servers all over the
world how does your computer know where to find the requested website?
Well the simple way of thinking about this is the fact that
names which are easy for humans to read (such as www.floppynet.co.uk
or www.google.co.uk) are not very easy for computers to understand.
In fact computers and web servers communicate to each other using
numbers, known as 'IP addresses'. Every machine connected to
the internet has an IP address, and every web server also has
an IP.
A nameserver is the secret part of the internet which converts
the names we type into our web browser into the IP address of
the relevant server. In essence DNS is a database of domain names
and corresponding IP's, which sounds so simple, but think about
it:
Many Billions of website pages are viewed each day
You could access the DNS hundreds of times each day!
Many IP addresses change on a daily basis
New domains are registered and modified every second
When you subscribe to hosting from Floppynet, we ask you to
order your domain from a Domain Registrar, we then explain to
you how to update the DNS record for the domain, just as with
above what we are actually asking you to do, is to update this
global database so that when people use your domain, it knows
that your website is actually on our servers.
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