| Account name or Login name
or Username is the unique short word assigned
to identify a particular user of a network. Account names
are used in email addresses and have a password associated
with them to prevent unauthorised use in dialup or ftp applications.
Alias is one of possibly many email addresses
for a mailbox. An alias essentially facilitates sorting of
your mail to your various mailboxes. A default alias is a
technique used to catch all mail to a domain that has not
specifically been given an mailbox or alias email address.
Anonymous FTP allows you to grant access
to certain files for any visitors without a password with
the FTP protocol.
ASP or Active Server Pages is
a language based on visual basic to make pages interactive.
Auto-responders are program robots that
automatically reply to incoming email with a pre-written form
letter.
Browser is an application that allows a
user to "surf" the web and display html pages in
human readable format.
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is the glue
behind web pages that allows forms and interactive pages to
work. CGI is a formal specification that allows you to call
programs from your web pages. Access to Perl, PHP, and the
ASP scripting language is included with all our plans.
Dialup refers to a connection to an ISP
where a computer or network becomes part of the Internet for
the duration of the connection.
Disk Space is the physical space allocated
on a server to hold your email, web pages, data and scripts.
DNS (Domain Name System) is the protocol
used for naming computers on the Internet. Networks are given
domain names to identify them on the Internet.
Domain name is a unique hierarchical name
for a computer network. For example host-one.net is a domain
name, which may be composed of hosts www.host-one.net and
ftp.host-one.net, which may be different computers. Since
a domain name is usually a hostname, a domain name often refers
to both a network and a specific computer within that network.
A domain name is used to configure URL's and email addresses.
Domain registration is the process of creating
a new domain name which allows you to maintain your personalised
or corporate identity on the Internet. Most webhosting plans
includes domain name registration and hosting of the form
www.your-company.com under any TLD (top level domain) of your
choice (subject to the rules of that TLD) including .com .net
.org .com.au .org.au .co.nz .co.uk etc. Once a domain is registered
it must be delegated to become visible to the Internet population.
Domain delegation is the process of making
a domain visible to the Internet population by assigning authority
for that domain to a particular computer that is configured
as a DNS server. This service is provided by your IPP. If
you change IPP's you will need to redelegate your domain.
Domain redelegation is the process of moving
the authority for a domain name to a new computer that is
configured as a DNS server. These services are provided by
IPP's.
Email is the electronic equivalent of the
standard postal mail service. You can send most multimedia
files and text through email. Email is not a real time service
since email is spooled and sorted prior to being sent to a
remote destination. To send files in real time use FTP. Many
ISP's limit the size of email, so it is recommended that larger
files are transmitted via FTP as well.
Email address is the electronic equivalent
to a postal address. An email address like name@some.domain.com,
has three components, "name" is some persons account,
the "@" symbol signifying "at" and a domain
"some.domain.com" signifying the network that the
user belongs to. A valid email address must have all these
three components for email to be delivered correctly.
FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions
is a document that answers just questions that are common
to a subject.
FTP or File Transfer Protocol,
which is method of transferring files in real time between
computers.
FTP access is provided on a 24/7 basis
to maintain your pages. Develop your pages locally and once
ready upload your pages using your favourite FTP client.
Home page counter is a numerical counter
that is provided with all plans to give your visitors feedback
on the number of hits to your pages as seen all over the web.
Hostname is a name for computer in the
DNS. A hostname can also act as a domain name for a network.
Subdomains can be added to the left part of hostname to refer
to computers in that domain.
HTML or Hypertext Markup Language
is the underlying language used to define web pages which
a browser will receive and convert to human readable format.
HTTP is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
as used by the World Wide Web.
https is the secure encrypted version of
http used when transferring sensitive information.
IAP or Internet Access Provider
specifically refers to an ISP that is providing Internet
connectivity.
IPP or Internet Presence Provider
is a company that specialises in providing webhosting and
other related applications services.
ISP or Internet Service Provider
is a company that provides dialup access or connectivity to
the internet and other Internet related services.
Login name is an Account name or Username
used to dialup up to an ISP. Login name and account name are
used synonymously.
Mailbox is a place that receives electronic
mail (email) and has an email address. Mailboxes usually have
some disk space limit.
Network is a group of connected computers.
NIC (Network Information Center) is an
organisation usually commercial which has responsibility for
management of a particular top level domain name (TLD) within
which you can purchase registration of a domain name. NIC
are responsible for delegation and redelegation of domain
names and that the correct authority is received for all transactions.
Perl is a very powerful interpreted programing
language used to develop complex web sites. You can learn
more about perl at www.perl.com.
PHP is a server side embedded language
used to develop interactive web pages. You can learn more
about PHP at www.php.net.
Raw Log file access is a log that updates
at every data transfer from your web pages so you can monitor
who is looking at your pages.
Search Engine is a service that actively
indexes the web to allow users to find information.
SSI's or Server Side Includes
enable you to embed dynamic content in your web pages. SSI
documents are parsed by the server before being sent to the
client. You must use the file extension .shtml to use SSI's
SSL is Secure Socket Layer
which web servers use to encrypt forms such as payment details
for secure transfer across the Internet. We use 128 bit encryption
technology to make interception virtually impossible. SSL
is used as the https protocol.
Statistics are detailed consolidation and
analysis of the raw log file data, updated weekly.
Subdomain is the left most part of a host
name. For example given a name www.host-one.net. "www"
is a subdomain of "host-one" which is a subdomain
of "net". "net" in this case is a top
level domain (TLD) , all host names must belong to a TLD.
Parts of domain names are separated with a ".', meaning
you can't use "." in hostnames.
TLD or Top Level Domain
is the right most part of a domain name. Two letter TLD's
like "au" for Australia, "uk" or United
Kingdom etc, are predefined for all countries and the special
tld's .com .net .org are predefined for the USA, although
these can be used by anyone. TLD's are maintained by one or
more NIC's which charge for the process of registering ie
creating new domains within their TLD.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the naming
standard used with browsers to locate files and computers
and the protocols used to access them.
URI (Universal Resource Identifier) is
a more general or generic term for URL. see
www.w3.org/Addressing for more details.
Username refers to a Login or Account name.
These are all used synonymously.
Web is shorthand for World Wide Web (WWW),
generally refers to the collection of hyperlinked multimedia
pages on the Internet.
Webhosting is the process of making html
pages and related applications visible on the Internet's World
Wide Web protocol using a webserver.
Webserver refers to software or a computer
configured to run webhosting and deliver web pages and multimedia
content across the Internet using the WWW protocol.
WWW (World Wide Web) is a collection of
protocols used to display multimedia content in browsers.
"www." is conventionally used as a prefix to a host
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