1. Introduction

To make a website available to the general public, various things need to be in place:

• An ISP to provide access to the internet
• A unique URL for each website and page
• An IP address for the device where the website is being hosted
• A DNS to look up the URL and find the correct IP address
• Somewhere to host the website, either locally or externally
• Cloud services to provide alternative options

Over the next few pages we will be taking a closer look at these things.