Access website more speed with HOSTS file

Hosts file is a local text file in the same format as the 4.3 Berkeley software distributions (BSD) UNIX /ets/hosts file. This file is maps host names to IP addresses, and it is stored in the \%Systemroot%\System32\Drivers\Etc folder.

If you browsing internet, your browser will send request to DNS server and then the server searching the IP that match with the name that you have type. After the DNS server find out the IP, then the DNS server send it to your browser.

Illustration:

1. User type www.kipram.com in the address bar and press enter
2. Then the browser send to DNS server about this request
3. The DNS server find out the IP for www.kipram.com
4. If IP for www.kipram.com is find, then DNS server send the IP to your browser.
5. Then your browser open the IP address

You can cut this delay by using HOSTS file. Below example of HOSTS file:

201.103.222.37    yahoo.com
202.201.125.17    google.com

You can add more IP address and web name as you like. One of you possibly will ask how to know the IP address from every website? The answer is simple. You can use command prompt to know IP address from some website.

Illustration when using HOSTS file:

User type www.kipram.com in the address bar and press enter
Then Windows XP searching the IP address from HOSTS file and give to your browser to open the IP address.

You need 2 step only.