Web Hosting Glossary
Here are some important web hosting words and meanings.
Apache – A very popular hosting software, available for a variety of platforms ..
Bandwidth (bandwidth) – The amount of traffic that can be transferred from a computer (server) to another.
Daemon – A program that runs in the background on a server.
DNS – Domain name system, changing domain names to IP addresses.
Domain name – Name that can be used in place of IP addresses.
Enom – An ICAAN registered domain name registrar.
Fantastico – An integrated solution that allows hosting customers to integrate popular scripts such as blog and forum.
FTP – File Transfer Protocol, a program that lets you upload files from one application to another.
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language is a language used to create Web pages.
ISP – Internet Service Provider.
Name Server – Convert domain name to the appropriate IP addresses and vice versa.
NOC – Network Operations Center.
PERL – Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, programming language used to create CGI programs.
PHP – An open resource used to create dynamic pages.
phpMyAdmin – Web based application to control the MySQL databases.
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
SquirrelMail – a web based e-mail program.
SSL – Secure Socket Layer is a protocol that transmits data in encrypted form.
TLD – Top Level Domain, such as. Com,. Net,. Org.
WWW – World Wide Web.
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