The hoster or a hosting of the website is the company providing the virtual site in the form of the server for placement of the website of the client. The hosting helps to maintain big inflow of visitors on the website and allows to work to a resource 24 hours a day trouble-free.
Instruction
1. One website can be attached only to one hosting. Of course, its multimedia files can be stored on servers and file storages of other hosters, but a management system of the website (CMS) and also all articles and texts of the website with databases belong to hosting company to which the domain of the website (its address) is attached. Knowing the website address (it is possible to look at it in an address bar), it is possible to find information on his hoster also. This information contains in the international information base WHOIS which describes detailed public information on each of the registered domains of the second level.
2. On the Internet there is a set of services which provide information from databases of WHOIS. One of such resources is located at the address: http://whois-service.ru/. To find information on a hoster of any website, follow the link Whois Service and in specially field enter a domain name then click the ENTER key on the keyboard.
3. If such URL exists and is already registered, the page of the website will reboot, and you will see an inscription "[the website address] is busy". Below you will see detailed public information on the domain which was not hidden by the owner of the website. Among the provided information you will be able to observe two lines nserver:. They contain names of remote machines on which disk space the website interesting you is located. Usually the addresses of DNS servers look so:
ns1.xxx.xx
ns2.xxx.xx
4. Subdomains are responsible for numbering of servers – normally it number 1 and 2, but also 3 and 4 sometimes meet. The xxx.xx value is nothing but the client website of a hoster. Having passed to this address, you learn on what hosting the website interesting you as this part of URL most likely conducts on a representative resource of a hoster is located.