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What is a host?

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What is a host?

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A host is simply a machine. A domain name is like a street name. To point to a particular house, we need to add the hostname to is, e.g. www, ftp, to form the FQDN (Fully qualified domain name) www.domainname.

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The Host class provides the common interface for data sources that represent a localhost or remote host. It is a data source, just like Application is a data source. However, it is not as important to the end user as the Application data source. By default, VisualVM provides a tab per host, showing host-specific information, such as CPU and memory statistics, as well as the host IP and operating syste,.

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Having registered your domain, you are ready to setup a web site, but the next question is where this will actually live. To link your own computers into the internet 24 hours a day is expensive and is unnecessary for “hosting” your web site. Instead you usually buy the services of a “host” who rent you space on their servers and offer some services as well. The services offered by these hosts varies, usually according to their charges. They range from the free hosts such as Geocities, Netcolony and Lycos, through the small free sites you are offered by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to proper web hosts. The free hosts usually insist on an advert banner at the top of the page, their logo on every screen or they take the first half-inch of the screen in order to help pay for the services they offer (we have arranged a demonstration by clicking on our demo domain www.the-domain-name.co.uk). The free sites that come with your ISP do not usually include your own domain, although they

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