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Web
Hosting Gloosary
Terms |
What is web Hosting ? |
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hosting allows your Web site to be connected to the
Internet at high speed via a Web server so its information
can be viewed globally through a browser. Metaphorically
speaking, renting space on a server is comparable to
renting an apartment. For a monthly fee, you reside
in that apartment and all maintenance is the responsibility
of the property. You also have access to certain amenities
that would otherwise be a costly investment. A Web hosting
company houses your Web site on its own secure servers,
enabling you to affordably leverage the power of a high-speed
network, 24/7 expert monitoring and support, and state-of-the-art
technology.
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Anonymous FTP |
| A
method for downloading and uploading files using FTP
protocol without having a username or a password. "Anonymous
FTP" indicates that a user may log into the remote
system as user "anonymous" with an arbitrary
password. A common convention is that the user's email
address is supplied as the password, e.g. "yourname@yoursite".
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Aliased Nameservers |
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aliased nameserver is a nameserver that has been labeled
as yours (the reseller's) despite the fact it actually
belongs to your Web hosting provider. This ensures that
domains located on your server are listed as "ns.yourservername.com"
instead of "ns.yourprovidersname.com". Also
see NAMESERVER below.
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ASP |
| A
proprietary Microsoft NT scripting language which may
be used to enable web pages to interact with online
databases. ASP files, which provide Web developers with
an easier, faster, and more powerful way to build Web
applications, are regular HTML pages with embedded scripts.
These scripts can be written in any language and processed
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Bandwidth |
| The
total amount of data that can be sent through a network
connection in a certain time, usually measured in bits
per second (bps), megabits per second (Mbps), or gigabits
per second (Gbps). The bandwidth provides for a faster
loading time for your web site. It is also important
because most web hosts only allow a fixed amount of
bandwidth each month. Going over the limit can be costly.
Be sure to know your exact bandwidth limitations. |
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Binary
Mode |
FTP
client mode used to transfer binary files (multimedia
files, executables and other data files). Not suitable
for transferring normal text files. |
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Burst |
In
web hosting, burst is when a client suddenly uses more
bandwidth than is expected under its contract.Typically,
the web hosting company expects this to happen occasionally
and has set fees for the client depending on the bandwidth
used. |
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Browser |
Computer
program that allows to search the World Wide Web and
displays the content of the webpages. Examples are Mosaic,
Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Internet Explorer. |
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Browser sniffing |
The
process in which the web site tries to determine what
kind of web browser the user is using. This is done
to suit the website to the particular capabilities of
the browser. |
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Co-location (colo) |
it
is a service whereby a company that owns a server houses
it in another company’s data center due to the
greater security, stronger backbone or other technological
reasons. |
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Command-line
interface |
| The
opposite of the GUI (Graphical User Interface). A way
of interacting with a computer system using the keyboard
and a text-only display. Usually more powerful, but
less user-friendly thatn a GUI. |
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Control Panel |
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panel included in web hosting packages is an online
web-based application that allows you to easily manage
different aspects of your account. A Web site Control
Panel provides a simple user interface for maintaining
and monitoring your Web site. Features of the Control
Panel vary among providers, but most include site administration,
design, statistical reporting, and account maintenance
tools. |
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Cookie |
| The
most common meaning of 'Cookie' on the Internet refers
to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a
Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to
save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser
makes additional requests from the Server. Cookies might
contain information such as login or registration information,
online shopping cart information, user preferences,
etc. |
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Dedicated Server |
| Similar
to co-location, except that you lease or rent hardware
from a Web host. A dedicated server is one that a web
hosting company has dedicated to a single client. In
other words, only one client can access that server
and that company’s site is the only one residing
on that server. |
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DHCP |
Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol. An automated way of obtaining
an IP address in the Local Area Network. |
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Frame Relay |
A
fast packet switching protocol. Used mainly in Wide
Area Networks. It differs from ATM in that packets can
have variable length. |
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Gateway |
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technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up that
translates between two dissimilar protocols, for example
Prodigy has a gateway that translates between its internal,
proprietary e-mail format and Internet e-mail format.
Another, sloppier meaning of gateway is to describe
any mechanism for providing access to another system,
e.g. AOL might be called a gateway to the Internet.
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HTTP |
| The
protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet.
Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP
server program on the other end. HTTP is the most important
protocol used in the World Wide Web (WWW). |
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IMAP |
| Internet
Message Access Protocol. A method allowing a client
email program to access remote messages stored on a
mail server. The protocol includes operations for creating,
deleting, and renaming mailboxes, checking for new messages,
message parsing, searching, and setting and clearing
flags. IMAP was originally developed in 1986 at Stanford.
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ISDN |
| (Integrated
Services Digital Network) -- Basically a way to move
more data over existing regular phone lines. ISDN is
rapidly becoming available to much of the USA and in
most markets it is priced very comparably to standard
analog phone circuits. It can provide speeds of roughly
128,000 bits-per-second over regular phone lines. In
practice, most people will be limited to 56,000 or 64,000
bits-per-second. |
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Mirror |
| Generally
speaking, 'to mirror' is to maintain an exact copy of
something. Probably the most common use of the term
on the Internet refers to 'mirror sites' which are web
sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material
originated at another location, usually in order to
provide more widespread access to the resource.
Another common use of the term 'mirror' refers to an
arrangement where information is written to more than
one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails,
the computer keeps on working without losing anything.
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| MX Record |
| Mail
Exchange record is part of the zone file and is used
to designate which mail server machine should process
email for a specific domain. |
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Propagation |
| The
process where name servers throughout the Internet add
new domains and remove expired ones from their records.
This can be a lengthy process, which is why connecting
to a new domain name can often take three or four days.
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Plug-in |
An add-on
piece of software that can extend the features of an
existing application. For example Netscape browser plug-ins
allow displaying of new types of web content, that the
browser can't display on its own. |
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Server |
| A
computer, or a software package, that provides a specific
kind of service to client software running on other
computers. The term can refer to a particular piece
of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine
on which the software is running, e.g.Our mail server
is down today, that's why e-mail isn't getting out.
A single server machine could have several different
server software packages running on it, thus providing
many different servers to clients on the network. |
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Search engine |
An
Internet service that stores a vast number of web pages
and allows for fast searching among them. Also, a piece
of software that implements a website search functionality.
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SHTTP |
Secure
HTTP. A version of HTTP protocol that uses encryption
to assure that the traffic between the server and the
browser cannot be eveasdropped on. Should be considered
mandatory for all e-commerce applications. |
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SMTP |
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(Simple Mail
Transport Protocol) -- The main protocol used to send
electronic mail on the Internet.
SMTP consists of a set of rules for how a program sending
mail and a program receiving mail should interact.
Almost all Internet
email is sent and received by clients and servers using
SMTP, thus if one wanted to set up an email server on
the Internet one would look for email server software
that supports SMTP.
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Spam (or Spamming)
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| An
inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list, or USENET
or other networked communications facility as if it
was a broadcast medium (which it is not) by sending
the same message to a large number of people who didn't
ask for it. The term probably comes from a famous Monty
Python skit which featured the word spam repeated over
and over. The term may also have come from someone's
low opinion of the food product with the same name,
which is generally perceived as a generic content-free
waste of resources. (Spam is a registered trademark
of Hormel Corporation, for its processed meat product.)
E.g. Mary spammed 50 USENET groups by posting the same
message to each. |
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Shopping cart
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A
program designed to handle the e-commerce section of
a Web site. Shopping cart software lets users browse
for and purchase products online. |
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Static (or dedicated)
IP |
If a
host offers a static IP, it means that your site will
be assigned a unique and unchanging IP address. See
the FAQ for some possible advantages of using a static
IP. |
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Top Level Domain: (TLD) |
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Top Level Domain (TLD) is the uppermost in the hierarchy
of domain names. For example, 1001resources.com is our
domain name. The "net" is considered the TLD
and the "1001resources.com" is considered
the second level domain. Together they form a domain
name which is unique. There are two types of TLDs. The
most common type is the Generic or Global TLDs which
include .COM, .NET, .ORG, .MIL, .INT and .EDU. There
is a possibility that new gTLDs will be introduced in
the near future. National or ccTLDs are two letter country
code domains that are managed by a registry designated
and controlled by each specific country. Each registry
might have differing prices, residency requirements
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URL |
| (Uniform
Resource Locator) -- The standard way to give the address
of any resource on the Internet that is part of the
World Wide Web (WWW). A URL looks like this: http://www.webcomindia.net
or telnet://anywhere.you.want or news:new.newusers.questions
etc.
The most common way to use a URL is to enter into a
WWW browser program, such as Netscape, or Lynx.
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WWW |
(World
Wide Web) -- Two meanings - First, loosely used: the
whole constellation of resources that can be accessed
using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some
other tools. Second, the universe of hypertext servers
(HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text,
graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together. |
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Zone file |
The
group of files that reside on the domain host or nameserver.
The zone file designates a domain, its subdomains and
mail server. |
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