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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Web Hosting Glossary - Common Hosting Terms
Apache - A very popular open source web hosting software, available for numerous platforms.
Bandwidth - The amount of data traffic that can or is transported from one computer to another.
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.
Co-lo - Co-location, refers to an agreement that sees a client owned server hosted in an ISP's data center.
Daemon - An application or utility that runs in the background on the server.
DNS - Domain name system, turns domain names in to IP addresses.
Domain name - An alpha-numeric combination that can be used instead of IP addresses.
Enom - An ICAAN registered domain name registrar.
Fantastico - An integrated application that allows web hosting clients to automatically install popular scripts.
FrontPage - A Microsoft web development application.
FTP - File transfer protocol, allows users to transfer files from one computer to another.
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language is a simple markup language used to design web pages.
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol allows the transfer to web files over the Internet, viewable in a browser.
ISP - Internet Service Provider.
Linux - An open source version of the UNIX operating system that has gained popularity as a web hosting platform.
Managed Hosting - A web hosting service where the provider supports the daily upkeep of the server, including activities like updates and patches.
MySQL - An open source application of a SQL server that is quite popular with numerous web hosts.
NameServer - Converts domain names into appropriate IP addresses and vice versa.
NOC - Network Operations Center.
Overselling - When a web host sells more space, bandwidth or CPU cycles than they have at their disposal, with the belief that the customers won't actually use them all.
PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, is a programming language frequently used for creating CGI programs for web use.
PHP - An open-source, server-side scripting language used to create dynamic web pages.
phpMyAdmin - A web based application to manage MySQL databases.
RedHat - A commercial Linux distribution, popular amongst web hosts.
Reseller - A webhost who resells web space off of a shared server with other resellers.
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Squirrelmail - A web based e-mail program.
SSL - Secure Socket Layer is a protocol that transmits data in an encrypted form.
Terabyte - 1024 Gigbytes worth of storage or bandwidth.
TLD - Top Level Domain, like .com, .ca, .org
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network.
VPS - Virtual Private Server is a software based private server hosted in a shared environment.
Whois - A universal database maintained by registries and registrars with domain contact information.
WWW - World Wide Web. ¶ 12:37 AM
Apache - A very popular open source web hosting software, available for numerous platforms.
Bandwidth - The amount of data traffic that can or is transported from one computer to another.
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.
Co-lo - Co-location, refers to an agreement that sees a client owned server hosted in an ISP's data center.
Daemon - An application or utility that runs in the background on the server.
DNS - Domain name system, turns domain names in to IP addresses.
Domain name - An alpha-numeric combination that can be used instead of IP addresses.
Enom - An ICAAN registered domain name registrar.
Fantastico - An integrated application that allows web hosting clients to automatically install popular scripts.
FrontPage - A Microsoft web development application.
FTP - File transfer protocol, allows users to transfer files from one computer to another.
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language is a simple markup language used to design web pages.
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol allows the transfer to web files over the Internet, viewable in a browser.
ISP - Internet Service Provider.
Linux - An open source version of the UNIX operating system that has gained popularity as a web hosting platform.
Managed Hosting - A web hosting service where the provider supports the daily upkeep of the server, including activities like updates and patches.
MySQL - An open source application of a SQL server that is quite popular with numerous web hosts.
NameServer - Converts domain names into appropriate IP addresses and vice versa.
NOC - Network Operations Center.
Overselling - When a web host sells more space, bandwidth or CPU cycles than they have at their disposal, with the belief that the customers won't actually use them all.
PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, is a programming language frequently used for creating CGI programs for web use.
PHP - An open-source, server-side scripting language used to create dynamic web pages.
phpMyAdmin - A web based application to manage MySQL databases.
RedHat - A commercial Linux distribution, popular amongst web hosts.
Reseller - A webhost who resells web space off of a shared server with other resellers.
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Squirrelmail - A web based e-mail program.
SSL - Secure Socket Layer is a protocol that transmits data in an encrypted form.
Terabyte - 1024 Gigbytes worth of storage or bandwidth.
TLD - Top Level Domain, like .com, .ca, .org
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network.
VPS - Virtual Private Server is a software based private server hosted in a shared environment.
Whois - A universal database maintained by registries and registrars with domain contact information.
WWW - World Wide Web. ¶ 12:37 AM
