Application Vault
contains more then 50 ready to install scripts and applications that can be used
on your website. It contains anything from blogging applications to forums and
shopping carts.
Auto-responders are an
E-mail feature which will automatically respond to
E-mails from your customers.
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a
journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated
and intended for general public consumption. Blogs
generally represent the personality of the author or
the Web site.
Catch-all e-mail address is an address that
can be setup to collect all email send to anything @domain.com
.
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface
and is a standard way for data to be passed between
web applications eg passing data from an online HTML
form to a script on the server.
Content Management System (CMS) is a
browser based interface which allows the owner to
update the content of their web site whenever they
want.
Crontab command, found in
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, is used to
schedule commands to be executed periodically.
Data Centres is a type of storage facility
that houses servers, they are usually strictly
protected with good power and internet connection
redundancy in place.
Domain is the "address" or URL of a
particular Web site. This is also how you describe
the name that is at the right of the @ sign in an
Internet address.
Email Aliases is just other names for a
specific email account, e.g. info@domain.com can
have an alias of moreinfo@domain.com and that mail
will go to the same main email account.
Email Forwarders are used to forward all
the mail that goes to an email account to a
different email account e.g. moreinfo@domain.com can
be forwarded to info@domain.com . The difference
between this and email aliases is that both these
email addresses are actual email account.
Fedora is an operating system and
platform, based on Linux.
Forum is an online discussion site, where
participants with common interests can exchange open
messages.
Frontpage Extensions is software needed on
the hosting server that allows you to manage you web
site with MS Frontpage.
FTP, File Transfer Protocol makes it
possible to send data contained in files between
computers, e.g. uploading your web site onto the
server.
Hosting, this refers to the housing of a
Web site, e-mail or a domain on a specific server
connected to the Internet.
Hosting Space is the
amount of storage space on the server, this include
websites, databases as well as email.
Plesk is a web based control panel
installed on hosting server that allow customers to
maintain and control certain aspects of their
hosting.
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML
embedded scripting language that lets you create
dynamic web pages.
Mailbox Quota is the maximum size of all
your emails in you mailbox, it include emails that
might be in your Trash or Send folders.
Mailing Lists is a collection of names and
addresses used by an individual or an organization
to send material to multiple recipients. The term is
often extended to include the people subscribed to
such a list, so the group of subscribers are
referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the
list".
MySQL is an open source relational
database management system that uses Structured
Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for
adding, accessing, and processing data in a
database.
Password Protected Directories are
directories that users can create with password
protection enabled.
Perl, Practical Extraction and Reporting
Language, is a programming language often used for
creating CGI programs.
phpMyAdmin is a popular, powerful
web-based interface for administering MySQL
databases. It is open source, written in PHP, and is
among the better tools available for working with
MySQL databases.
POP3 is the abbreviation for Post Office
Protocol - a data format for delivery of emails
across the Internet.
RAID 1, same as mirroring. "RAID 1"
usually means "disk mirroring by itself" not
combined with any other array technique.
Self Managed Backups,
here you can manage your own site backups or
schedule backups. Email and database will also be
backed up.
Sub-Domains are extensions of your current
domain, e.g. you can have test.domain.com together
with www.domain.com and both can contain different
web sites.
Traffic is the data transfer to and from
your site.
Web-based Email Interface
is a fully web integrated email interface that can
be used to check and send emails.