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Understanding WebHosting making sence of it all!
Domain = The idea of where you live, which you want to call Big Guy's Pig Sty.
Domain registrar = The equivalent of a bureaucracy where you buy the rights to be the owner of the name "Big Guy's Pig Sty". As yet, there's nothing that connects this to wherever you're going to live, but now there's only one Big Guy's Pig Sty, and for the period for which you've paid, nobody else can call where they live Big Guy's Pig Sty.
Host firm = Slum City, a trailer/industrial park which has plots, lots, shacks for rent.
Hosting account = A monthly arrangement with Slum City to rent a place to put Big Guy's Pig Sty.
IP = The geographical location of the new home of Big Guy's Pig Sty, 72 Slimy Trail.
URL = What visitors look for--the wooden sign or gold-tone metal things that read Big Guy's Pig Sty. When you move Big Guy's Pig Sty, you'll take the sign with you. (No matter who lives at the actual location, visitors can also look for the sign that says 72 Slimy Trail.)
Server = the physical shack, strange dome structure, mansion or dilapo house trailer at 72 Slimy Trail. Before you moved in, and put up the Big Guy's Pig Sty sign, the occupant was Bessy Lovell's Messy Hovel. If you get evicted, the next occupant may be Mac's Hack Shack. Slum City may decide to remodel the structure, or replace the house trailer, but it will still be 72 Slimy Trail.
Nameserver = Something the host firm gives you to set at the registrar so the world knows that Big Guy's Pig Sty is now at 72 Slimy Trail. Like filling out a change-of-address form at the post office so mail to Big Guy's Pig Stuy can go to 72 Slimy Trail.
Site content = The stuff (furniture, rhino cages, hippo washing equipment, aardvark feeders, sound system, and so on) you put in the building at 72 Slimy Trail that becomes what visitors know as Big Guy's Pig Sty. At some point, your activities and possessions could expand beyond the capacity of the shack you've rented from Slum City; it may turn out that your lease forbids platypus washing or you get in trouble because your indoor water ski setup uses too much water.
Dedicated IP = 72 Slimy Trail, Suite ST, an address that can be used only by your roommate in the basement who bought a separate mailbox and labeled it that way. Mail to that address will not go to anybody else living in the building.
Subdomain = The Trough Room of Big Guy's Pig Sty. It has no separate identity or address, so mail needs to be addressed c/o (care of) Big Guy's Pig Sty, and visitors need to find Big Guy's Big Sty to get in. Kind of like a boarder who has no separate phone and whose name isn't on the mailbox.
Add-on domain = You decide to hop on the lease-a-wallaby bandwagon, register Wallabalooza, clear out the garage and make a separate sign. If you do it right, nobody uses its real address, Big Guy's Pig Sty/Wallabalooza. Eventually you might move it to a separate Slum City facility, but meanwhile, though you can reach the garage by walking through the yard, visitors can enter Wallabalooza directly.
Dedicated server = When you get rich enough (or the wildebeest races annoy the neighbors so much you need your own building), Big Guy's Pig Sty can be the only occupant on one of Slum City's blocks. Though you and the Slum City employees have to move all the stuff to the new place, and you've got to change the nameservers, visitors to Big Guy's Pig Sty don't realize you've moved.
Parked (1) = You discover that nobody owns My Pig Sty, so you register the name and set the nameservers to your Slum City account. Then you add a separate listing to the phone book (cPanel) for My Pig Sty, but with the same phone number and address as Big Guy's Pig Sty. People looking for My Pig Sty automatically call or visit Big Guy's Pig Sty, and virtually nobody ever wonders about it.
Parked (2) = You registered Piranharama a while back, but have never done anything with it. So you agree to a sign company's suggestion that it put up a sign saying Piranharama; it will put directions to other places devoted to piranhas, and you'll get a tiny amo
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