How does the Internet work?

A network is a group of computers that are connected and can communicate with one another. “The Internet” is a worldwide network of computers, connected by TCP/IP, a protocol that all of the computers understand. It’s an agreement about how the computers exchange information. All computers connected to the Internet have an IP address consisting of four numbers separated by periods (for example: 123.123.123.1). To make addresses easier for humans to remember, DNS (domain name service) associates domain names like www.yourdomain.com with the numeric address of the computer where that domain is hosted. When you type in a domain name, your computer requests web page files from the address of the computer where the files are located. These files are sent to your computer, and displayed in your...

How does email work?

So you compose an email on your computer, using an email client like Outlook. You address it to someoneelse@theirdomain.com, and press Send. So what happens next? 1. Your email program sends your mail to the SMTP server where your account is. If you are sending mail to someone else whose mail account is on that server, go to step 7. Otherwise, keep reading. 2. The SMTP server breaks the address someonelse@theirdomain.com into two parts: someone else (the account name) and theirdomain.com (the domain). The SMTP server then contacts a DNS (domain name service)server, and asks for the IP address where theirdomain.com is located. 3. The DNS server sends the address back to the SMTP server. 4. The SMTP server then sends the email message to the SMTP server where theirdomain.com is located. 5. The second SMTP server delivers the email message to someone else’s account on the POP3 or IMAP server. 6. Someone else logs on to their computer and opens their email client. Their email client requests the POP3 or IMAP server to send all email from their account to their computer. 7. If you are sending email to someone whose account resides on the same set of mail servers, the SMTP server will simply direct the mail to the local POP3 or IMAP server, where it will be delivered to the appropriate...

How do I get people to visit my site?

1. Visit each of the major search engines that you know about, and submit your URL. Most of these sites have a link called “submit your site,” (or something like that) — just click on the link and follow the directions. For the most part, the links are not placed prominently or noticeably — you will probably have to look for them. Some popular search engines include: * Yahoo * Google * Lycos * Alta Vista * Northern Lights * Dogpile 2. To make your site easier for the search engines to crawl and classify, consider adding some META tags to your index page. You can add general keywords that you think would interest people, and a short description. META tags go between the and tags in your HTML code. META tags for a site about your Indonesian restaurant might look something like this: The “keywords” tag gives the search engine a way to classify your page. The “description” gives the search engine something coherent to put in the blurb that visitors will see on the search page, rather than the first few words that appear on the page, which would appear there by default. 3. Keyword your pages and add them to the NDN Keywords...

What are some account basics?

We’ll explain some basic procedures and steps to use your account. Username and Passwords: These are stated in the welcome email you received with your account activation. They’re used to access your FTP and website Cpanel (control panel). Once you’ve begun the dns update to use our name servers it will take anywhere from 48 to 72 hours for all worldwide DNS records to reflect the changes. We recommended you use the IP address until you can verify your domain is being served from our servers. To access your website control panel you can login into it using http://www.your_domain.com:2082 or https://www.your_domain.com:2083 (secure) Replace www.your_domain.com with your actual domain hosted with us or the server ip we assigned you in the welcome email. You can upload your files you want to make web accessible to the “public_html” directory in your account. DO NOT delete files that have been created by the system or your account may cease to...

Do you provide technical support over phone?

Support is available through the ticket system only, which is more reliable and fast than any of the support services including phone or chat. Typically you can get a response and resolution to your issue within minutes using support ticket system. This is a myth that phone support is faster. If there was a phone support, it would not take any faster as you could be put on hold for hours like we do get hold for many of the ‘big’ companies we deal in our daily...