Domain registration is similar to registering the name of your business at the Chamber of Commerce. Registration of the name of your domain (your shop or display window on the Internet) takes place via a business that manages all names and domains. This means the name you have chosen for your webshop may already be registered by someone else, meaning you cannot use it (you can check yourself on this website whether a name is registered). You can however ask the current owner of the registered domain name if you can purchase it. This is sometimes possible and in other situations should be considered carefully as the asking price can be very high, particularly if such a domain has a lot of visitors. This website shows a number of domains already registered but available for sale. Before you open a webshop or anything else on the Internet, you must register the name of that domain (your own space on the Internet). You can do so via this website and thereby also choose a “.nl”, a “.com” or other extension for the domain.
We compare this with large office premises in which several businesses are registered. Hosting involves hiring a space, for example space for a webshop, a photo site or an online journal. You hire space with which to make your domain – the name of which you have registered earlier – available to everyone on the Internet. Hosting is no more than a digital shop or office for starting your activities. With hosting, you decide yourself how much space you need, how many visitors or clients you expect and base the costs on this. CSV Networks offers various possibilities via this website. Compare these at your leisure and chose one that suits you at this moment. You can always switch to another hosting package at a later point. And so your Internet “shop” will also grow with the number of visitors you have.
This is the next step after hiring space on the Internet. Everyone with a hosting subscription has a website (domain) operating on a web server (a super-fast computer dealing only with Internet activities). Such a web server can sometimes handle 200 or 300 websites. With a dedicated server, you have such a web server all to yourself. Compare this with your own office premises – you yourself decide what you do with the premises and who has access. A dedicated server is actually indispensable if your business activities on the Internet are such that they are definitive for the continuity of your business. Your own dedicated server will indeed cost more than a hosting subscription – but work out how much you lose on one day with no orders. A dedicated server normally has an automatic back-up function (also called a “mirror”), so all activities are taken over directly by a second (reserve) system in the web server itself. CSV Networks has various large companies with their own dedicated servers as clients.
Co-location is the expression used if you have your own dedicated server and wish to have this operate in a computer room under optimal operating conditions. There are various web servers at CSV Networks that operate in a special computer room. These web servers are situated in the CSV Networks main office and all use the same security systems, the same operation conditions and emergency power supplies. Co-location is a unique way of being sure that your website is always online. Co-location also offers special facilities to ensure that business processes (but also for example, websites and teacher information systems in comprehensive schools) can be guaranteed at all times. CSV Networks has extensive experience with co-location. Feel free to contact us if we can be of any further assistance.
This is a Linux program for managing websites but can be used on any Windows PC. CSV Networks provides Direct Admin free of charge for optimally managing your own website yourself.
Resellers are people (or companies) that hire larger amounts of space from CSV Networks and sublet it to its or their own clients. Resellers can be compared with commercial estate agents; they fill a business premises with tenants who have themselves been acquired. If a reseller needs more space or wishes to sell more services, CSV Networks will offer the possibility of more growth. Becoming a reseller is an interesting option if you know a number of people in your environment who would like their own website. You group all these people together and become a CSV Networks reseller.
This is a program for managing your website and has been specially developed for the Windows environment and therefore operates on any Windows PC. It is similar to Direct Admin.
Streaming video is actually nothing more than watching video images via the Internet, for example product information – a video of a new model of car - or (and this is to come in the future) complete programmes now available on normal television. Streaming video is a term used for technology behind moving images on the Internet. It is fascinating technology that will make several new developments possible, for example web TV – your own television station on the Internet. The whole world can follow your programmes (possibly on payment). CSV Networks has everything to help you with Web TV and offers the technology (including the payment system) to make your own television station profitable. The images can be viewed with the Real Player and the Windows Media Player. There is normally at least one of these players on the PC that you buy. You can of course always download such a player.
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