Web Architecture
I am writing a report that will explain the architecture that the web is created around, how user settings and server settings can affect the performance of the web and how to prevent security risks that can affect your data.
Internet Service Providers
Also known as an ISP, these are companies that provide the user their connection to the internet. There is a monthly charge for this service and the user is sometimes required to purchase other services as well such as a phone line and TV service. You also usually receive a modem with your package to allow you to connect to the internet.
Web Hosting Services
A web host will make your website accessible via the web. It is stored on their server, and is accessible via a
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The accredited channel partners also provide the customer with the domain and manage it but they are also accredited in providing excellent customer support and service.
Self-Managed Partners are where the domain names are managed and controlled by the owner themselves.
Mail
SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is the standard for email. SMTP uses TCP to transfer emails. Users usually use SMTP for sending emails but when receiving them it uses the IMAP or POP3 protocol.
Proxy server
A proxy server is designed so that a user can connect to another system and ask it to get the data it requests. this is so the server that is sending the information does not know where it is going to, this adds security to the users network and allows them to browse anonymously by hiding the users IP address, not only does it not know who the true receiver is of the data, the server that is sending the data also thinks it’s coming from a different location allowing you to access data usually blocked from the users country.
Routers
A router is what devices connect to, to get access to a network, the router assigns a separate IP address to each device that is connected to it. A router would then connect to a modem to provide internet access to the devices connected to the router. The purpose of a router is to send and receive data packets. When a data packet comes in to the router, it reads the address from inside the packet to know where to send the packet too. The
The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP).
TCP/IP is a protocol which transfers data across a network. It allows two different computers to communicate well even if they use different codes. Putting both computers into a new common code language which both computers
Internet service providers – a service provider (SP) is a company that provides organisations, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other
Host companies and Internet Service Providers interact with the Central Registry to get updated DNS information.
The firewall comes in hardware or software form and acts as a filter for all data
Router is a device for networking that sends packets of data between the networks of a computer. The packet of data is forwarded to routers of the networks that contain the internetwork until the packet is at the destination node. A router can be linked to several data lines from various systems. The router reads the address information in the packet to establish the ultimate destination when the data packet is in any data lines (Liu, 2012).
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) are the basic communication protocols, which were designed to provide low level support for internetworking. This term is generally also used to refer to a more generalised collection of protocols developed by the internet community and U.S. Department of Defence.
Subdomain- With DNS naming terminology, this term refers to a part of a host name (or domain name). That smaller part can be the part that a company registers through IANA or some authorized agency to identify all hosts inside that company.
The SMTP protocol stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is used when an email is
A communications linkthat is outside the normal IP network, like a console cable or a phone call between two modems and aux port.
SMTP is used either when an E-mail is delivered from the client (like Gmail) to the E-mail server or when E-mail is delivered from one server to another.
communicating over. It could be a modem, a network card, a radio transmitter, or a router.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the most used e-mail standard. SMTP e-mail is usually implemented as a two-tier thick client-server application, but not all the time.
A web hosting company allows business big and small, also individuals to make their websites accessible on the internet over the WWW (World Wide Web) hosting companies provide space on a server, this can be rented space or the actual server itself can be owned by the client. Everything that is stored at a data centre sits on a server, a server is basically a powerful pc that is capable of storing different data, or websites, that are then accessible through the network of the internet.
After buying a domain name, what next? Domain in simple term is a plot of land. When you secure a domain name, you secure a digital plot of land on the internet. That security comes with an identification label to prove ownership or control. That ownership acquired from a Domain name Registrar (such as godaddy.com, domains.google.com) does not confer outright ownership or legal ownership of the domain but only an exclusive right of use for a particular period of time (usually for 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years). After securing a domain name, you have to host it.