Glossary
All definitions are adapted from Wikipedia
- Bandwidth
- The amount of information downloadable from the webserver over a defined period of time, in web hosting terms, this is normally one month. If visitors to the website download a total greater than the defined bandwidth in one month, the bandwidth limit will have been exceeded.
- CGI
- Scripting (programming) language used for creating dynamic webpages.
- cPanel
- Control panel commonly used by linux web hosts to allow users to administrate all aspects of their website with little technical knowledge.
- Domain name
- Another term for a web address e.g. www.domainname.com. Also see URL
- FrontPage Extensions
- Allow you to use dynamic features built into FrontPage on your website. FrontPage sometimes uses it's own non-standard methods to add interactivity to your website.
- FTP
- File transfer protocol - a way of transferring files from one computer to another, for example to transfer your webpages on your PC to your hosting space to make them live on the Internet.
- IMAP
- IMAP allows users to access new messages instantly on their computers, since the mail is stored on the network, not downloaded. With POP3, users either download the e-mail to their computer or access it via the web. Both POP3 methods take longer than IMAP, and the user must either download any new mail or "refresh" the page to see the new messages.
- Megabyte
- A unit of computer storage. Depending on exact format, one megabyte
is equivalent to:
- One large book of text
- One "typical" sized photograph with reasonably good quality
- A hundred small images
- Approximately one minute of MP3 music
- MySQL
- Standard database with linux hosting. Closely tied to PHP and many web applications use a combination of the two.
- Parked Domain
- Parked domains act just like your master domain e.g. you register your hosting account with www.domainname.com. You then park www.domainname.co.uk and www.domainname.eu. All domains point to the same webspace, so a visitor can type in any one of those and arrive in the same place.
- PHP scripting
- Scripting (programming) language used for creating dynamic web pages. Closely tied with MySQL database.
- POP3
- E-mail software using POP3 generally connect, retrieve all messages, store them on the user's PC as new messages, delete them from the server, and then disconnect.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator. More technical way of describing a web address e.g. http://www.domainname.com
- Web Hosting
- A web hosting service provides individuals, organizations and users with systems for storing any content accessible via the Web.