[plug] Hosting query (was Re: [plug] FAQ - alpha release)

Bret Busby bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au
Mon Sep 18 13:48:44 WST 2000


Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
<snip>

> > 8.1 - what about thanking Tennyson, for hosting the meetings, and, UCC?
> >     Also, does Linux Australia host the domain name, or, WASP? I thought
> > that WAP does (though, once again, I may be wrong...)
> 
> Spark hosts the plug.linux.org.au domain, Linux Aust hosts the
> linux.org.au domain and Munnari & Connect etc host the .org.au and .au
> domains.
> 
> That paragraph should probably be changed to:
> Linux Australia for initially hosting the domain and mailing list .....
> 
>  - Matt

I don't understand; I thought that Spark is the name of the machine, and
that WASP provided the hosting. I had understood that an ISP could host
a domain name, with the domain name owner providing a machine to the
ISP, with the machine running onsite at the ISP, with all the wbesite
stuff for the domain name, running  on the web server, or, that an ISP
could provide virtual hosting for a domain name, whence the ISP provides
space on one of its web servers, for the website associated with a
domain name.

I had understood that a sparcstation was used as a webserver for the
PLUG stuff (the domain name, and member websites, etc), and that the web
server (Sparc PLUG) is located at WASP, where the PLUG domain name and
associated websites (the PLUG websites, and the member websites), are
hosted.

As I appear to have got all this completely wrong, could all of this be
clarified, please?

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Bret Busby

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