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| ActiveX ActiveX is Microsoft technology used for developing reusable object oriented software components. ActiveX is an alternate name for OLE automation, not a separate technology. While the term "Automation" refers to the overall technology, "ActiveX" refers to the objects that can be created and m [more ...] |
| AJAX AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or Ajax, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes so tha [more ...] |
| Apache Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as [more ...] |
| Autoresponder An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex.
The first autoresponders were created within mail transfer agents that found they could not deliver an e-mail to a given address. These create bounce mes [more ...] |
| Bandwidth Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of for example a filter, a communication channel or a signal spectrum, and is typically measured in hertz. Bandwidth in Hertz is a central concept in many fields, including electronics, information theory, radio commun [more ...] |
| BIND BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain, previously: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is the most commonly used DNS server on the Internet, especially on Unix-like systems, where it is a de facto standard. Supported by Internet Systems Consortium. BIND was originally crea [more ...] |
| ClamAV Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), is a widely used free antivirus software toolkit for Unix-like operating systems. It is mainly used with a mail exchange server as a server-side email virus scanner. ClamAV is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (G [more ...] |
| Clustered Hosting Clustered hosting technology is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. This technology provides customers with a "clustered" handling of security, load balancing, and necessary website resources.
A clustered hosting platform is data-driven, [more ...] |
| ColdFusion ColdFusion is an application server and software development framework used for the development of computer software in general, and dynamic web sites in particular. In this regard, ColdFusion is a similar product to Microsoft ASP.NET, Java Enterprise Edition or PHP.
Overview
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| Colocation Centre A colocation centre (collocation center) ("colo") or carrier hotel is a type of data center where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost an [more ...] |
| Computer cluster A computer cluster is a group of tightly coupled computers that work together closely so that in many respects they can be viewed as though they are a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks. Clusters [more ...] |
| Data Transmission Data transmission is the conveyance of any kind of information from one space to another. Historically this could be done by courier, a chain of bonfires or semaphores, and later by Morse code over copper wires.
In recent computer terms, it means sending a stream of bits or bytes from one [more ...] |
| Dead link A dead link or broken link is a link on the world wide web that points to a web page or server that is permanently unavailable. The most common result of a dead link is a 404 error, which indicates that the web server responded, but the specific page could not be found. The browser ma [more ...] |
| Dedicated Hosting A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including ch [more ...] |
| DNS Domain name system
On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) associates various sorts of information with so-called domain names; most importantly, it serves as the "phone book" for the Internet: it translates human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. web-hosting-top.com, into the IP addresses [more ...] |
| Domain hijacking Domain hijacking is the process by which internet domain names are stolen from the rightful registrant.
Many people confuse domain hijacking with the reregistration of an expired domain by a new party. One is a legal process and one is not. Domain hijacking is theft, while if a name owner [more ...] |
| Domain Name The most common types of domain names are hostnames that provide more memorable names to stand in for numeric IP addresses. They allow for any service to move to a different location in the topology of the Internet (or an intranet), which would then have a different IP address.
By allowing the us [more ...] |
| Domain name registrar A domain name registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and/or by a national ccTLD authority to register Internet domain names.ICANN has authority over gTLDs, or Generic Top Level Domains. Examples of gTLDs include .com, .net and .org [more ...] |
| Dynamic web page Classical hypertext navigation occurs among "static" documents, and, for web users, this experience is reproduced using static web pages. However, web navigation can also provide an interactive experience that is termed "dynamic". Content (text, images, form fields, etc.) [more ...] |
| Email Hosting An e-mail hosting service is an Internet hosting service that runs e-mail servers.
E-mail hosting services usually offer premium e-mail at a cost as opposed to advertising supported free e-mail or free webmail. E-mail hosting services thus differ from typical end-user e-mail providers such [more ...] |
| Email hub The term Mail Hub is used to denote an MTA or system of MTAs used to route email but not act as a mail server (having no end-user email store) since there is no MUA access. Examples could include dedicated anti-SPAM appliances, anti-virus engines running on dedicated hardware, email gateways [more ...] |
| File Hosting A file hosting service, online file storage service, or online media center is an Internet hosting service specifically designed to host static content, typically large files that are not web pages. Typically they allow web and FTP access. They can be optimized for serving man [more ...] |
| Firewall A firewall is a hardware or software device which is configured to permit, deny or proxy data through a computer network which has different levels of trust.
Function
A firewall's basic task is to transfer traffic between computer networks of different trust levels. Typical examples are t [more ...] |
| Free Hosting A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported and of limited functionality.Free web hosts will either provide a subdomain (yourname.example.com) (e.g. 50megs, Byethost, Trap17, Qupis) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname) (e.g. GeoCitie [more ...] |
| FTP FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network.
Specifically, FTP is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). T [more ...] |
| Fully qualified domain name A fully qualified domain name (or FQDN) is an unambiguous domain name that specifies the node's position in the DNS tree hierarchy absolutely. To distinguish an FQDN from a regular domain name, a trailing period is added. ex: somehost.example.com. An FQDN differs from a regu [more ...] |
| Game server hosting A game server is a server used by game clients. Any video game played over the internet generally requires a connection to a game server.
How it works
Data is sent from the game client to the game server, from there the game server processes the data and sends it back out to the [more ...] |
| Geodomain The term geodomain refers to domain names that are the same as those of geographic entities, such as cities and countries. Examples of geodomains are Atlanta.com, LosAngeles.com, Texas.com, Spain.info and country specific names like Sverige.com.
Since geographical names are limited in num [more ...] |
| Guestbook A guestbook is a logging system that allows visitors of a website to leave a public comment. Traditionally, the term applied to the actual ledgers held, for that same purpose, at B&Bs and museums.
It is possible in some guestbooks for visitors to express their thoughts about the site or it [more ...] |
| Homepage The homepage (often written as home page) is the URL or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts and when the browser's "home" button is pressed. The term is also used to refer to the front page, webserver directory index, or main web page of a website of a group, [more ...] |
| Hostname A hostname (occasionally also, a sitename) is the unique name by which a network-attached device (which could consist of a computer, file server, network storage device, fax machine, copier, cable modem, etc.) is known on a network. The hostname is used to identify a particular host i [more ...] |
| IANA The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, DNS root zone management, and other Internet protocol assignments. It is operated by ICANN.
Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon [more ...] |
| ICANN ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, ICANN is a California non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of [more ...] |
| Imap Internet Message Access Protocol
he Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP or IMAP4, and previously called Internet Mail Access Protocol, Interactive Mail Access Protocol (RFC 1064), and Interim Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol operating on po [more ...] |
| Internationalized Domain Name internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that (potentially) contains non-ASCII characters. Such domain names could contain letters with diacritics, as required by many European languages, or characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. However, the [more ...] |
| JavaScript JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much more commonly used. "JavaScript" is actually Netscape Communications Corporation's (and now the Mozilla Foundation's) implementation of the ECMAScript [more ...] |
| Load Balancing In computer networking, load balancing is a technique (usually performed by load balancers) to spread work between many computers, processes, hard disks or other resources in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time.
Introduction
A load balancer can [more ...] |
| Remote backup service A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with an online system for backing up and storing computer files. Managed backup providers are companies that provide this type of service.
Online backup systems are typically built around a client software program [more ...] |
| Reseller Hosting Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his/her allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host's services wholesale and then sells them to his customers for a profit. The c [more ...] |
| Root Nameserver A root name server is a DNS server that answers requests for the root namespace domain, and redirects requests for a particular top-level domain (TLD) to that TLD's nameservers. Although any local implementation of DNS can implement its own private root name servers, the term "root name serv [more ...] |
| Server Log A server log is a log file (or several files) automatically created and maintained by a server of activity performed by it.
A typical example is a web server log which maintains a history of page requests. The W3C maintains a standard format [more ...] |
| Shared Hosting A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service is a form of web hosting service where more than one instance of the same web server is hosted on a single physical server. This is generally the most economical option for hosting as many people share the overall cost of server m [more ...] |
| SpamAssassin SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules, which also supports DNS-based, checksum-based and statistical filtering, supported by external programs and online databases.
SpamAssassin is generally r [more ...] |
| SSL Certificate Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers. There are s [more ...] |
| Subdomain In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. For example, "example.com" is a subdomain of the "com" top-level domain (TLD) while "www.example.com" is a service in the domain "example.com". In fact, the "com" TLD is a subdomain of the root domain [more ...] |
| Uniform Resource Locator Uniform Resource Locator (URL), still also known as Universal Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Strictly, the idea of a [more ...] |
| URL Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formerly known as Universal Resource Locator,is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) - many popular and technical texts will use the term "U [more ...] |
| Virtual Private Server A virtual private server (also referred to as VPS or virtual server, and abbreviated VPS or VDS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each [more ...] |
| Web document Web document is a similar concept to web page, except it is a broader term with the following distinctions:
Web page Web document Transfer protocol [more ...] |
| Web page A Web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation t- other web pages via hypertext links.
Web pages may be retrieved fr [more ...] |
| Web template A web template is an element of a web template system that is used to rapidly generate and mass-produce web pages through a pre-defined schematic, layout, or finite number of programming language instructions. In its simplest sense, a web template operates similarly to a form letter. "The bas [more ...] |
| Website A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN.
A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always acces [more ...] |
