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Hosting
Hosting simply means that we provide space on our servers located in a
big network operation center (NOC)
for your site.
Web server
A computer connected to
the Internet 24 hours/7 days containing one or more web
sites.
Web
space
Simply some space on a web server where
you can put your web pages on. 100 MB means all your web pages including
text, pictures and emails can not exceed a total size of 100 megabytes.
NOC
Network Operation Center. See the description
of our data center.
Domains/URL
To find any web page on the Internet
you usually type in a so called URL (e.g. www.hostproof.com). Generally,
every computer on the Internet is uniquely identified by an IP-address
so a computer can find any other computer.
But as it would be very annoying if we had to remember all those complicated
numbers, domain names are used to find a specific website. When you enter
www.hostproof.com, the computer uses a so called name
server to translate this name into an IP-address to find the web server
where this site is located..
Sub
domains
A way of further dividing
a domain
name into several spaces, e.g. forums.hostproof.com.
Bandwidth
The total amount of data
allowed to be transferred to and from your web site.
Email
Electronic mail. The exchange
of text messages and file attachments between computers.
POP3
Post Office Protocol 3.
A protocol used so email programs can deliver emails
to and from the server.
Autoresponder
When someone sends an email to the address,
the server automatically replies with a message of your choice. E.g. "We
are on holiday". Just like a phone answering machine.
Email
forwarding
Used to automatically forward emails
sent to a POP3 account to your home email or anywhere else. You can set
email forwarding for each email address separately.
FTP
File transfer protocol. A protocol used
to exchange files between different computers. For instance: you will
use a FTP program to transfer the files for your website from your local
computer to the web
server.
IP
address
Internet protocol address. The
standard way of identifying a computer that is connected to the Internet,
much the way a telephone number identifies a telephone on a telephone
network. An IP address is four numbers separated by periods, and each
number is less than 256, for example, 192.168.192.70.
Dedicated
IP
Your site will always
have the same IP address and your IP address will not be
shared with other users or web sites.
Name
server
Used to translate domain names into IP addresses.
MySQL
The standard database for web sites.
A database is a file containing data organized into records which you
can retrieve, sort and manipulate. This is done through SQL
(Structured query language), a simple database query and programming language.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The standard markup language used for
documents in the World Wide Web. The HTML language uses tags to indicate
how Web browsers should display page elements such as text and graphics,
and how Web browsers should respond to user actions such as hyperlink
activation by means of a key press or mouse click.
PHP
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform,
HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and
want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at www.php.net.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface.
CGI scripts are a small program written in a script language
such as Perl that functions as a glue between HTML pages
and other programs on the web server.
SSL
Secure sockets layer. A standard for
establishing a secure communication channel to prevent the interception
of critical information (such as credit card data). Used to enable secure
electronic financial transactions.
SSH
SSH is a procedure to communicate with the server (on your
account) like Telnet, but more secure.
SSI
Server Side Includes. When using a UNIX system it is sometimes necessary
to enable certain HTML files executable for the purpose of using SSI.
Server Side Includes are often used to run a CGI script
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