Tips and Advice For Your Web Site
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13 Aug 2009DNS stands for Domain Name System. If you read our post The Importance of a Dedicated IP Address, then you already know that an IP is your site’s “location” on the internet. DNS is an internet-wide system that relates domain names with IP addresses. An easy way to look at DNS is like a phone [...]
First, let me begin by defining what an IP address is. An IP address is a 32-bit numeric address expressed as 4 numbers from 0-255, and separated by dots (for example 192.154.0.231). An easy way to define an IP is to say it is your web site’s address on the internet. Domain names exist because [...]
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