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Beginners GuideWhat is a Domain name?A domain name is a unique name given to a web address. When the domain name is typed into the address line of the Internet browser, the user is taken to the website of that specific domain. For example, for 1&1 Internet UK our domain name is 1and1.co.uk. What is Web Space?To create your website on the Internet, you need to upload your files to a web space, from which users can access your website. A website usually comprises of HTML pages, graphics, sound files etc and they are stored on your web space. Web space can be considered some room on a large computer (a server) that is connected to the Internet. The size of your web space depends on the package you choose. For example, if you purchase the Home package, you are allocated 800 MB of space on the server to place all your assorted file types whereas those on the Professional packages are given 3,000 MB. How does a domain differ from a website?An Internet domain name is only the address that is typed in when a user wants to access a site or certain data from the company who owns the domain name. The website on the other hand is the entire collection of graphics, pages, texts and associated files which you see when you access a site, for example 1&1.co.uk is our domain, while all the graphics and information you see before can be labelled as the website. When using the 1&1 hosting service, you will frequently come across two different types of mail accounts, a POP3 e-mail account and a forwarding (or e-mail alias) mail account. The POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) mail accounts are accounts which allow you to download messages sent to those specific accounts directly from the server. For example, if a e-mail is sent to test@yourdomain.com this is held on one of our e-mail servers and will provide a store until the user logs on and downloads the mail from the server. A programme such as Outlook Express or Eudora is usually required to conduct the download. A forwarding mail account is one which automatically redirects mail sent to it to another location, such mail accounts are usually created for users who want to have multiple mail accounts and yet only have to check one. For example, a user can have mail forwarding accounts sales@yourdomain.com, enquiries@yourdomain.com, complaints@yourdomains.com all forwarded to support@yourdomain.com. The user will only have to check the support@yourdomain.com mail account, any e-mail sent to the other accounts will be automatically redirected to the support mail account.  Please noteFor detailed guides and instructions as to how to setup and use such e-mail accounts, please see the in the FAQ's E-mail section
How do I place my site onto the Internet using your services?With 1&1 there are two distinct methods of making your site available on the Internet. The first is by using the Website creator service (this is suitable for novices) which will automatically generate and place a website on your web space according to your requirements. The other is to manually upload a site made by yourself onto your web space. The most usual process of doing this is through FTP (File Transfer Protocol) where by using a suitable FTP client, you transfer the files from your local space (i.e. your hard disk) onto the 1&1 web space. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)FTP is basically a system for getting your files from your computer to your web space. Most web development programmes such as NetObjects Fusion have an FTP system built in. However you can get FTP programmes that will run independently of the web development programmes. A PackageA package with 1&1 can contain many domain names, however what this means is that you can use all the features of the many domain names in 1 package. The advantage of this is that you only pay one package fee. |
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