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Web Fundamental Research Paper

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Web Fundamentals

1. Know web architecture and components
1.1 list the hardware and software components which enable the internet and web

Web hosting company (server)
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.
NIC
A NIC or network interface controller is a physical component that connects a computer to a computer network. The NIC allows for communication between devices using a specific physical and data layer standard such as Ethernet, Fibre channel and Wi-Fi. These provide the basis for a full protocol stack, which allow communication between computers on the same local area network (LAN) or on large scale networks using protocols such as internet protocol (IP) The NIC can be both a physical and data link layer device, as it provides physical access to a network using cables and uses MAC addresses that are uniquely assigned to network interfaces, for devices to recognise one another.
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Switches are multilayer and can sit on the data link layer (layer 2) when processing and forwarding data, also on the network layer (layer 3) by using IP addresses when forwarding

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