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Explanations to most of the technical terms used.

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.