- Hard Drive – The hardware used for storing and retrieving digital information, in this case, a harddrive in a server where hundreds of Web site files and databases are located.
- Web Site Files – All Web sites are made up of HTML, PHP, or ASP or a combination of both, all stored on a harddrive on a Web server which then serves up files to Web site visitors.
- Best Standard Practices Of Network Design – Most of the time in hosting there are multiple servers data centers and multiple servers. However not in this case because, well, who knows.
- Domain Registrar – All domain names (YourName.com) must be registered with a domain registrar. It’s very much like how a phone number can only be acquired via phone company and the phone company doesn’t own the phone number, you can move it to a different phone company if you like.
- Domain Name Servers – Every domain has something called domain nameservers, or D.N.S. The DNS records tell the world where the Web site and email is being hosted. These settings can only be changed at the domain registrar which is extremely unfortunate when their Web site is down because of a hurricane.
