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Web Hosting Glossary
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Understanding the terminology of Web Hosting
is important for setting up a good web site.
With new technologies come new vocabularies,
and the language of Web hosting is no exception. There are certain
terms and features of Web hosting that you must understand before
you can select the right web hosting services and plan for your
online business.
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| E-Mail
Auto Responders |
Auto responders may
be used to send automated responses to incoming e-mail sent to a specific
address. An auto responder could be used to send a standard messages.
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| Email
Forwarding |
Having email automatically sent (forwarded)
from one (or more) email address, to another (possibly more than one)
email address that you specify. If a person has `unlimited email forwarding`,
then an email of the form, anything@you.com will be sent to forwarding
address. For example, Support@you.com, Webmaster@you.com etc., will
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| Farm |
A server farm is a group of load-balanced servers IP addresses
or server names. The farm is identified by a virtual IP address
or a virtual server name and may contain many different physical
“member servers”. Depending on the complexity of your
requirements a single farm may contain various services such as
HTTP, FTP, SMTP, streaming audio/video, etc. all within itself or
you may have separate farms associated with each service you wish
to load balance.
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| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol) -- A very common
method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a special
way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving
and/or sending files. Click to know more
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| Fault
tolerance |
The ability of a system to respond to unexpected hardware or software
failure is its fault tolerance.
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(Fiber Distributed Data Interface) -- A standard for transmitting
data on optical fiber cables at a rate of around 100,000,000 bits-per-second
(10 times as fast as Ethernet, about twice as fast as T-3).
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Finger
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An Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet
sites. Finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal
information, but the most common use is to see if a person has an
account at a particular Internet site. Many sites do not allow incoming
Finger requests.
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| Gateway
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The 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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| Gigabyte
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A gigabyte is a measure of storage capacity
and is roughly a billion bytes. Specifically, it is 1024 Megabytes.
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| Gigabits
per second (Gbps) |
Currently, Gigabits per second is the fastest measure bandwidth,
and is most commonly associated with high speed networks, such as
Ethernet. A Gigabit equals 1 billion bits, or 1,000,000,000 bits.
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| Gopher
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A widely successful method of making menus of material available
over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program,
which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although
Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years,
it has been largely supplanted by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World
Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet.
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Guest book
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A script on a web page with a form which allows your website visitors
to sign in, and leave comments or questions.
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| .htaccess |
The default name of a configuration file that contains server directives
(small commands known by the server) that tell the server how to
behave. A .htaccess file is used to restrict access (password-protection)
to specific files and/or directories on the Internet or an intranet.
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| Hit
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As used in reference to the World Wide Web, 'hit' means a single
request from a web browser for a single item from a web server;
thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains
3 graphics, 4 'hits' would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page,
and one for each of the 3 graphics. 'hits' are often used as a very
rough measure of load on a server, e.g. 'Our server has been getting
300,000 hits per month.
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| Home
Page |
Several meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser is
set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers to
the main web page for a business, organization, person or simply
the main page out of a collection of web pages, e.g. 'Check out
so-and-so's new Home Page.'
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| Host |
Any computer on a network which provides disk storage or services
to other computers on the network. It is quite common to have one
host machine provide several services, such as WWW and E-MAIL.
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Hosting
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This term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email
or a domain. Hosting Every website, email, file, or online service
is stored (called `hosted`) on a computer (called a server) which
is connected to the Internet.
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| Hosting
Provider |
A company which provides web space to individuals and other companies.
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| HTTP
(HyperText Transport Protocol) |
HTTP Hypertext transfer protocol (http) is the set of rules for
exchanging files on the world wide web. 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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